Evaluation of the Demeaning Face of COVID-19 on Labour Relations: a New Challenge for Kenya’s Burgeoning Democracy

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dc.contributor.authorJunior, Ratemo Tom
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-15T08:42:19Z
dc.date.available2022-06-15T08:42:19Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionA Research Article in the Italian Labour Law e-Journalen_US
dc.description.abstractOn March 11th 2020, the World Health Organization was forced to declare the novel coronavirus disease a global pandemic after a surge in reported cases of the disease outside China. The disease has adversely affected, inter alia, the economy and healthcare system in several countries including Kenya. To eradicate the pandemic, the Kenyan Government introduced numerous measures designed to control the infection rate which, inter alia, included closing of non-essential businesses and learning centers, restriction of people movements between 7.00pm and 5.00am and implementation of social distancing rules. These measures have compelled several public and private business entities to either shut or scale down their level of operations in order to remain afloat amid the pandemic. The existing Kenyan labour laws neither incorporate provisions on crisis response nor address the issue of employee safety while working from home. This article therefore seeks to delineate the legal implications of the disease on labour relations in Kenya. Besides, a discussion on the shortcomings of the existing labour laws in safeguarding employers and employees’ rights to i.e., health, safety, leave and termination amid the pandemic is undertaken. It finally proposes measures to be undertaken to fix the loopholes in such laws.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJunior, R. T. (2020). Evaluation of the demeaning face of COVID-19 on labour relations: a new challenge for Kenya’s burgeoning democracy. Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 13(2), 113-130.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1561-8048
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/23824
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherItalian Labour Law e-Journalen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectTerminationen_US
dc.subjectHealthen_US
dc.subjectLeaveen_US
dc.subjectSafetyen_US
dc.titleEvaluation of the Demeaning Face of COVID-19 on Labour Relations: a New Challenge for Kenya’s Burgeoning Democracyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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