Fire Someone the Right Way, or Risk Paying 12 Months' Wages
Kenyan law can rule a dismissal unfair even when the reason was real and provable, if you skipped the hearing. The compensation can run up to twelve months' wages.
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Kenyan law can rule a dismissal unfair even when the reason was real and provable, if you skipped the hearing. The compensation can run up to twelve months' wages.
When a casual worker disputes their hours or pay, Kenyan courts do not ask them to prove it. They ask you. No muster roll, and the gap counts against you.
The salary on the offer letter is the one number nobody receives. An 80,000 hire costs your business 86,050 a month and reaches your employee as 57,877. Here is where the rest goes.
Everything a Kenyan business owner asks before picking a payroll system, answered.
PAYE filed two days late on 300,000 KES costs 6,000 KES on day one. And it compounds. Here are the five penalties most Kenyan business owners only meet during an audit.
PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, Housing Levy, NITA. Current 2026 rates, the small print most payroll systems still miss, and what each one costs to get wrong.
NSSF contributions went up this month. If you're earning above 72,000 KES, you're now paying more. Here's what changed and what to do.