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Clinical officer interns get Sh457m compensation for work minus pay
Clinical Interns participating in a demonstration at Uhuru Park grounds in Nairobi on July 6,2015 over what they claimed to be non-payment of their services by the government
The Employment and Labour Relations Court in Nairobi has ordered the government to pay Sh457 million to clinical officer interns who had worked for a year without any pay.
In the decision, the court directed the government to pay each of the 914 interns with overdue salaries, allowances, and damages for the infringement of their rights. “In the upshot judgment is hereby entered for the petitioners against the respondents jointly and severally, in the following terms; General damages, Sh500,0000 for each of the 914 Petitioners, for the violated rights.