Category: Goings on
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Kenya Personal Data Protection Concerns Around COVID-19 measures
Kenya’s confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 700 people at the start of the second week of May 2020, well within the numbers the region is reporting, though far from the tens of thousands reporting across Europe and the United States. Nevertheless, Kenyan health authorities have consistently maintained the need to ensure confidentiality of patients personal identifiable…
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Novel Employer Liability Issues in Kenya: Employers’ Liability For Employees’ Contracting Diseases (such as COVID-19) in the workplace, and for Injuries Sustained by Employees when ‘Working from Home’
The Work Injury Benefits Act of 2007 (WIBA) is statute which provides for compensation to employees for work related injuries and diseases contracted in the course of their employment and for connected purposes. Of particular importance, an employer is liable to compensate an employee for personal injury, including contracting a disease, and or death if these…