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Tullow Oil to pay Sh11m after court finds it unfairly fired single mother on UK job

Workers walk past storage tanks at Tullow Oil's Ngamia 8 drilling site in Lokichar, Turkana County, Kenya, February 8, 2018. [REUTERS/Baz Ratner]

When oil company Tollow hired Lynnet Kathure on March 1, 2012, as its human resource manager for its Nairobi office, she was such an excellent employee that it seconded her to move to West London as a human resource projects and analytics Lead.

However, there was an issue regarding the company’s policy, which stated that short-term assignments abroad would last between three and 12 months but were reserved for single individuals. According to the document, those on short-term assignments were entitled to 50 Euros (Sh7,447).

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