Not all medics can go on strike, court now rules

 

Doctors, nurses and clinical officers protest a long Digo road in Mombasa. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]

Doctors and nurses cannot go on strike unless there is a specified minimum number of medics who are attending to patients. A three-judge bench of Labour court has ruled that the law governing essential services in the country allows public employers to determine the classification of employees who must continue to work during a work stoppage.