Annual leave: at least 21 working days.
After twelve consecutive months of service, an employee is entitled to not less than twenty-one working days of annual leave with full pay. (Section 28, Employment Act, 2007 (Cap. 226).)
Kenya · Employment & labour
Kenya's Employment Act, from leave to lawful termination.
Employer duties under the Employment Act 2007 — annual leave, sick leave, maternity and paternity leave, and the fair-hearing procedure before termination — published with verified citations to the consolidated Act.
Where this comes from
Published pack rows, not scraped summaries.
The Employment Act (Cap. 226) sets the floor for every employment relationship in Kenya, and Kenyan courts enforce its termination procedure strictly — unfair-termination claims often turn on Section 41 alone. The pack compiles the consolidated Act as at 2024-04-26 with 363 statutory definitions resolved.
The KE-EMPLOYMENT-LABOUR-WORKPLACE pack currently publishes 6 published employer obligations, 16 penalty facts, 363 statutory definitions. Every published row carries a verified quote span from the consolidated instrument, an explicit review decision, and version history. Published rows are a reviewed subset of the compiled regulatory corpus — depth keeps growing under the same publication policy.
This page is maintained by the Esheria Legal Team. Facts shown here come from published pack rows with verified quote spans, and none of it is legal advice.
Key obligations
The employer duties that reach litigation.
Sick leave: seven days full pay, seven at half.
After two consecutive months of service, an employee is entitled to sick leave of up to seven days with full pay and thereafter seven days with half pay in each twelve-month period. (Section 30, Employment Act, 2007 (Cap. 226).)
Explain and hear before you terminate.
Before terminating for misconduct or poor performance, the employer must explain the reason to the employee and hear and consider the employee's representations. (Section 41, Employment Act, 2007 (Cap. 226).)
Leave entitlements
Statutory minimums every contract must clear.
Annual leave
21+ working days, full pay
After 12 months' continuous service
Sec 28, Employment Act
Sick leave
7 days full pay + 7 days half pay
After 2 months' service, per 12-month period
Sec 30, Employment Act
Maternity leave
3 months with full pay
Notice requirements apply
Sec 29, Employment Act
Paternity leave
2 weeks with full pay
Notice requirements apply
Sec 29, Employment Act
Sources & related
Check the source, then go deeper.
Employment Act, 2007 (Cap. 226)
Consolidated text as at 2024-04-26 — the exact source the published pack rows cite. Opens the official PDF.
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