RULING OF THE COURT
In a judgment of the Employment and Labour Relations Court at Nairobi (Monica Mbaru, J.) delivered on 7th April, 2016 awarded compensation to the 24 appellants, the former employees of the respondent whose services were terminated on account of redundancy as a result of review of structures and implementation of the ICT systems. They were awarded various sums of money in respect of salaries for the number of years each one of them had worked, compensation, damages for discrimination, notice and severance pay. In granting the award, the Judge took into account the respondent’s two human resource handbooks issued in 1994 and a subsequent one of 2013. The former prescribed 30 days’ redundancy notice while the latter reduced the period from 30 days to 15 days. The learned Judge was of the view that the appellants’ employment fell within the 2013 handbook. Basing her decision on this fact, she declared, among other things that;
“(a) the redundancy notice issued to the cla…