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Employment & HR Advisory
Day-to-day advice on employment, labour, and human-resource issues — the questions that come up in the running of a workforce.
Transactional Practice
Labour Relations & Industrial Matters
Employment advisory, HR documentation, employer-employee disputes, and proceedings before the ELRC.
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- Acting for
- Employers
- Forums
- ELRC · Arbitration · Boards
- Coverage
- Advisory · Drafting · Disputes
Overview
How we approach labour relations & industrial matters.
We advise employers — corporate, institutional, and family-owned — on the full sweep of employment, labour, and human-resource matters. The work covers the everyday questions (contracts, policies, disciplinary process) and the harder ones (restructurings, contested terminations, industrial disputes).
Where the matter is contested, we act in proceedings before the Employment & Labour Relations Court, in employer-employee arbitrations, and in the negotiated settlements that close most matters before they reach hearing.
Services
What we cover in labour relations & industrial matters.
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Bonds & Restrictive Documentation
Drafting of employment bonds, training-cost recovery documentation, confidentiality, and post-employment restraints.
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Disciplinary & Grievance Process
Designing and conducting disciplinary and grievance procedures that hold up under subsequent challenge before the ELRC.
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Industrial Disputes
Representation of corporate employers in industrial disputes, contested terminations, and proceedings before the ELRC.
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Employer-Employee Arbitration
Arbitrations between employers and employees, including framework agreements and ad hoc references.
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Negotiations & Settlements
Negotiated separations, settlement agreements, and release documentation that closes matters cleanly.
Approach
The way we run a labour relations & industrial matters matter.
A four-step discipline applied to every brief, so the work is senior-led at the points where senior judgement matters, and moves predictably between them.
Brief
Issue scoped against the Employment Act, the contract, and any applicable HR policy; engagement letter agreed.
Advisory & Documentation
Written advice, with the supporting documents — letters, notices, bonds, separation agreements — drafted to the standard the file will need.
Execution
Process run with discipline. Notices served, hearings held, documentation maintained against the foreseeable challenge.
Resolution
Settlement or judgment — matters closed, with releases or decrees in the file and any post-conclusion compliance items discharged.
FAQs
Questions clients ask about labour relations & industrial matters.
The ones we hear most often. For anything specific to your matter, a short call is usually the fastest way to an answer.
All firm FAQs →Yes. We draft employment agreements, executive contracts, employment bonds, and the supporting HR-policy framework — handbooks, disciplinary procedures, grievance procedures, and the policies that come up most in practice.
Yes. Senior counsel appears regularly before the Employment & Labour Relations Court, in contested terminations, suspension reviews, and other employment-side litigation.
Kenyan law requires both substantive justification and procedural fairness — notice, a hearing, written reasons. We design the process before it is implemented so subsequent challenge is anticipated rather than fixed after the fact.
The bulk of the firm's labour work is for employers, but we accept senior-executive and individual matters where there is no conflict and the matter is appropriate for the firm to take.
Related Practice Areas
Adjacent counsel from the firm.
Labour Relations & Industrial Matters Counsel
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