JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
This is an appeal from the Judgment of the Employment and Labour Relations Court (ELRC) Nairobi (Monica Mbaru, J.) dated the 24th day of February, 2015.
The background to the appeal is that, as at 9th September, 2012, the respondent had a recognition and several collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) with the appellant, on the basis of which it filed the claim giving rise to this appeal, on behalf of Mrs. Charity Wairimu Maina, (the grievant). The grievant was employed by the appellant on the 12th day of April, 1989, and confirmed on 1st March, 1990. She was thereafter variously deployed in the appellant’s branches countrywide. In July, 2004, she was posited to the Nyeri branch where she worked till June 2010, when she was assigned duties of a cashier. On 16th November, 2010, she was sent on forced annual leave. On the 23rd day of December, 2010, and on the 6th day of January, 2011, she received show cause letters respectively, accusing her of misappropriation of …