RULING OF THE COURT
This is an application under Rule 5(2) (b) of the Court of Appeal Rules for stay of execution of the judgment and decree of the Industrial Court given on 19th March, 2014 pending appeal against the said ruling.
The following underlying facts are not disputed. On 27th October 2011, Abel Marcel Okoth Okello, the respondent herein filed a memorandum of claim against the applicant in the Industrial Court claiming various sums of money from the applicant for unfair and unlawful termination of the respondent’s contract of employment. The respondent in particular claimed shs. 6,273,699/00 being the gross salary he would have earned until lawful end of his one year contract; shs. 241,956/24 as gratuity; award for the remainder of the period that the complainant would have worked until the end of contract; severance pay, and statutory benefits, costs and interests.
The applicant filed a statement of defence to the claim on 24th February 2012 denying the claim. The case was fix…