Hundreds of former employees of British-Dutch multi-national consumer goods giant Unilever Plc have been granted permission to appeal a case in which they are seeking damages from the company’s Kenyan subsidiary Unilever Tea Kenya at the British Supreme Court.
The tea workers had earlier suffered a blow after losing their appeal at the UK High Court and subsequently at the UK Appeals Court in a case in which they allege that Unilever Tea Kenya failed to protect them from the ethnic violence in 2007.
