As Kenya’s employment laws make it mandatory for employers to provide all employees with written employment contracts, regardless of employee cadre, employers seeking to employ relatively low/semi/unskilled employees often need to balance between giving wordy and long-winded contracts on one hand, and ‘covering all the bases’ on the other. In addition, the chances of misunderstanding or lack of understanding altogether by semi or unskilled employees is high, exposing employers to future contract interpretation (should it arise) to the vagaries of contra-preferentem rule of interpretation.
Here below we provide a one-pager sample/template that employers (corporates and individuals) can use for the following cadres of staff: domestic assistant, office assistant, driver, ayah, watchman/guard, gardener, cleaner, cook, farm hand, general assistant
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