Kenyan teachers celebrate big win as court orders salary rise

Uasin Gishu High School teachers in Eldoret celebrate yesterday after the Kenya National Union of Teachers won a case over salary increment. In a landmark ruling, the Employment and Labour Relations
Court directed that the over 280,000 teachers in the country will share out the increment that will be spread over four years. [PHOTO: Peter Ochieng/standard]

NAIROBI: Teachers struck gold after close to a decade of protracted negotiations often forced by national strikes but left the Jubilee Administration with a new headache – that of managing the already bloated and unenviable public wage bill.

With the stroke of a pen, the emboldened Employment and Labour Relations Court, gave the award with a declaration that it should cure the perennial stand-offs between teachers and their employer.