Lawyer challenges the two-month rule denying new workers paid sick leave

Court says that an employer has a duty to organise and allow employees to take leave.

Employers could be required to give newly hired workers paid sick leave from their first day at work if a court petition seeking to scrap the current two-month waiting period succeeds, potentially extending paid absence benefits to newly recruited workers.

Advocate Newton Arori has petitioned the Employment and Labour Relations Court in Nairobi to declare unconstitutional legal provisions that deny new employees paid sick leave before completing two consecutive months of service.

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