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PREMIER BAG & CORDAGE LIMITED
V.
PETER WAKABA WACHIE

(2017) JELR 94438 (CA)

Court of Appeal 6 Oct 2017 Kenya
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Case Details

Suit Number:Civil Appeal 43 of 2016
Judges:William Ouko, Patrick Omwenga Kiage, Agnes Kalekye Murgor
Location:Nairobi
Other Citations:Premier Bag & Cordage Limited v. Peter Wakaba Wachie [2017] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

By a Memorandum of Claim dated 26th March 2013 filed by Peter Wakaba Wachie , the respondent against the appellant, Wakaba stated that he was employed by the appellant on 8th March 1991 as a spinner, though he was not provided with a job card. It was a term of the contract of employment that either party could terminate the employment by providing the other with one month’s notice in writing. According to Wakaba on 4th July 2012, the appellant suspended him from employment for reasons that the was under investigation. The suspension was not lifted, following which Wakaba was evicted from the appellant’s residence he occupied thereby signifying his dismissal from employment.

At the time of his dismissal, Wakaba contended that he had been employed with the respondent for 21 years and that he was earning a monthly salary of Kshs 6,485. It was his further complaint that, in the month of June, 2012 he was issued with a payslip which indicated that an amount of Kshs 742 …

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