Employment Advisory and Litigation
Acting for a Kenyan subsidiary in connection with a complex multifaceted employment dispute with overlapping legal elements, including constitutional breaches, employment law, and fundamental rights.
Advised the Kenyan branch, which is also the East Africa Regional Headquarters of an international non-profit social enterprise on the legal and regulatory framework governing Employer of Record (EOR) arrangements under Kenyan employment law, with particular focus on enforcement risk, misclassification exposure, and structuring safeguards. Advising a multinational NGO in connection with a planned restructuring of its operations in Kenya. Acting for a Kenyan NGO in connection with compliance matters, reporting requirements, and employment claims.
Advising a Kenyan subsidiary in connection with redundancy process in Kenya,
compensation for its employees and coordinating correspondence with the labour officer.
Advising and acting for a former employee against a leading multinational in relation to an employment dispute based on unfair termination and targeted treatment where the employer had entered into an employer of record arrangement with a third party.
Advising and acting for an employer against a former management-level employee on claims of unfair termination based on vague show-cause notices, providing inadequate performance appraisals, and maintaining poor disciplinary records. Advising and acting for a client against a former employer, a leading award-winning up scale hotel in Nairobi at the Labour Office and successful compensation for unfair termination, discrimination and retaliation.