Senior Partner in the Commercial Employment and IPT Practice
DLA Piper Africa, Kenya
In his classic play, Romeo and Juliet, English playwright William Shakespeare posed the intriguing question: “What's in a name?” His answer was equally ingenious: “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
For a host of reasons, among them increasingly litigious Kenyan employees fueled by the highly complicated process of terminating jobs, many employers are opting for the model of independent contractors also known as consultants.
