Friday, June 6, 2025
Star Today Logo
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Investigation
  • Health
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
Star Today Logo
Home Business

Barclays ex-staff lose long battle for Sh600m

May 4, 2020
in Business, News
Reading Time: 2 mins read
Barclays ex-staff lose long battle for Sh600m
5
SHARES
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Whatsapp

Readers' Choice

Kindiki tours Ukambani region

Co-op Bank recognized as one of Africa’s fastest-growing companies

At least 105 former Barclays Bank of Kenya employees were dealt a severe blow after the Court of Appeal reversed a High Court decision to award them Sh600 million following their sacking a decade ago.

Ms Agnes Wachu Wamae and 104 others were waiting for the appellate court decision with bated breath until it became clear the award had been struck out.

Three appellant judges declared the award was not legally justified.

The former employees were declared redundant in December 2010.

But as they left their jobs, they questioned the manner in which the computation of their final dues was conducted.

They were later awarded the money by Justice Mathew Nduma Nderi of the Employment and Labour Court who found that they had been discriminated.

The judge noted that the bank violated Section 40 of Employment Act, 2007 which requires employers to grant sacked workers proper terminal dues.

“In its own discretion, the bank granted the claimants one-and-a-half months’ salary for each completed year of service and also used its discretion to cap the number of completed years payable to each of the former bankers,” he said.

The lender said each of them was paid their send off package. The bank further said each employee was liable to pay outstanding loans with the bank to be offset through the exit package. Furthermore, all terminal benefits, including payment in lieu of leave was paid out to them.

It said they were fraudulently paid for 16 years, which they had not served, and that others who worked 40 years were denied their hard-earned money.

Tags: Labour Court
ShareTweetSend
Previous Post

Kanu starts online drive ahead of 2022

Next Post

237 Kenyans killed by floods since start of rains in April

Related Posts

Kindiki tours Ukambani region

Kindiki tours Ukambani region

June 5, 2025
Co-op Bank reports Ksh13B half-year net profit

Co-op Bank recognized as one of Africa’s fastest-growing companies

June 3, 2025
Next Post
237 Kenyans killed by floods since start of rains in April

237 Kenyans killed by floods since start of rains in April

Please login to join discussion

Continue Reading

Kindiki tours Ukambani region

Kindiki tours Ukambani region

by Star Today
June 5, 2025

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki stormed Ukambani on Thursday, June 5, 2025, for a fundraiser in MP Nimrod Mbai’s Kitui East...

Co-op Bank reports Ksh13B half-year net profit

Co-op Bank recognized as one of Africa’s fastest-growing companies

by Star Today
June 3, 2025

The Co-operative Bank of Kenya (Co-op Bank) has been recognized as one of Africa’s fastest-growing companies in the 2025 Financial...

Cosmo Choy steals spotlight as he reunites with Ruto allies in Kisii

Cosmo Choy steals spotlight as he reunites with Ruto allies in Kisii

by Star Today
May 22, 2025

Former US-based UDA activist Ombori Monari, popularly known as Cosmo Choy, on Thursday, May 22, 2025, joined a team of...

Catholic priest shot dead by bandits in Kerio Valley ambush

Catholic priest shot dead by bandits in Kerio Valley ambush

by Star Today
May 22, 2025

A Catholic priest was shot dead on Thursday afternoon in a brutal ambush by armed bandits in Kerio Valley, a...

Recent News

  • Kindiki tours Ukambani region
  • Co-op Bank recognized as one of Africa’s fastest-growing companies
  • Cosmo Choy steals spotlight as he reunites with Ruto allies in Kisii

Category

  • Business
  • Health
  • Investigation
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Star Today

© 2023

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Investigation
  • Health
  • Opinion

© 2023