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After 25-year court battle, KR ordered to pay ex-employees

The case filed by the Railways Workers Union in 1995 saw the court order a 25 per cent pay increase. [Fidelis Kabunyi, Standard]

A court in Nairobi has ordered Kenya Railways (KR) to pay hundreds of millions of shillings in salary arrears owed to its former train drivers (locomotive operators).

Although the court did not specify how much the State agency ought to pay, its 197 aggrieved former employees were seeking Sh429 million in a salary increase row that has gone on for 25 years.

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