KENYA AIRWAYS LIMITED V. AVIATION & ALLIED WORKERS UNION KENYA, MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT, MINISTER FOR LABOUR & HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT & ATTORNEY GENERAL

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL

AT NAIROBI

(CORAM: GITHINJI, MARAGA and MURGOR, JJ.A.)

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 46 OF 2013

BETWEEN

KENYA AIRWAYS LIMITED.....................................................................................APPELLANT

AND

AVIATION and ALLIED WORKERS UNION KENYA.................................1ST RESPONDENT

MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT.....................................................2ND RESPONDENT

MINISTER FOR LABOUR and HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT....3RD RESPONDENT

ATTORNEY GENERAL.................................................................4TH RESPONDENT

(AN APPEAL FROM THE AWARD, ORDER AND DECREE OF THE INDUSTRIAL COURT OF

KENYA AT NAIROBI (RIKA, J.) MADE ON 3RD DECEMBER, 2012 IN INDUSTRIAL COURT CASE NO. 1616 OF 2012)

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JUDGMENT OF GITHINJI, JA

[1] This is an appeal from the Award of the Industrial Court (Rika, J.) declaring the restructuring, redundancy and retrenchment of 447 unionisable employees of the appellant, Kenya Airways Limited (Airline) substant…