A group of 132 staff of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), including research scientists, has escalated their fight for equal pay to the Court of Appeal, challenging an Employment and Labour Relations Court decision that dismissed their discrimination claims regarding special allowances paid to medical doctors.
Their claim relates to entitlement to five allowances totalling Sh201,000 monthly. Central to the legal dispute is a claim that only 268 of Kemri's 931 employees were receiving these benefits.
