A guard of honour mounted by private security guards at Mamboleo Showground in Kisumu.[FILE,Standard]
Night after night, Stephen Onyango guarded homes and businesses for seven years, earning a paltry Sh5,000 a month, far below the statutory minimum wage.
In a recent landmark judgment, the Employment and Labour Relations Court (ELRC) has finally tallied the real cost of that neglect and ordered Onyango’s employer, Kisspag Security Services, to pay him a total of Sh169,415 for underpayment and unpaid leave.