The number of Kenyan workers convicted for employment-related offences rose by 60 per cent last year, coinciding with tough economic times in which employees’ purchasing power was increasingly facing erosion on the back of stagnant wages and rising cost of essential commodities.
Data published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that the number of prisoners convicted for employment related offences rose to 6,921 last year from 6,636 the previous year. About 185 of the convicts were female while 6,636 convicts were male.
