{"id":21066,"date":"2015-11-06T07:20:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T07:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenyan-teachers-lose-appeal-on-50-60pc-pay-rise\/"},"modified":"2015-11-06T07:20:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T07:20:50","slug":"kenyan-teachers-lose-appeal-on-50-60pc-pay-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenyan-teachers-lose-appeal-on-50-60pc-pay-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan teachers lose appeal on 50-60pc pay rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenyan teachers have lost a 50-60 per cent pay increase awarded to them by the Employment and Labour Relations Court on June 30.}<\/p>\n<p>Five Court of Appeal judges nullified the award on Friday, saying the labour court had no jurisdiction to give the award.<\/p>\n<p>They said the Salaries and Remuneration Commission&#8217;s role ought to have been considered, ruling that its advice is binding as it is anchored in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The judges also said the labour court lacked jurisdiction to conduct conciliatory proceedings between the teachers&#8217; unions and their employer, the Teachers Service Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The unions have said they will appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9012 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/law.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyan teachers have lost a 50-60 per cent pay increase awarded to them by the Employment and Labour Relations Court. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>THE EAST AFRICAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Kenyan teachers have lost a 50-60 per cent pay increase awarded to them by the Employment and Labour Relations Court on June 30.} Five Court of Appeal judges nullified the award on Friday, saying the labour court had no jurisdiction to give the award. They said the Salaries and Remuneration Commission&#8217;s role ought to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070064,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21066.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21066.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21066.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21066.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21066.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21066.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21066"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21066"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}