YOUTH ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FUND BOARD & CHAIRMAN, YOUTH ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FUND BOARD V. MORIASI ARABU JOSIAH

RULING OF THE COURT

By the “Practice Notes for the Conduct of Court Business During the Global Coronavirus Pandemic” hearing of applications will be considered by the Court on the basis of written submissions without the necessity of an oral highlighting.

The dispute before the Employment and Labour Relations Court at Nairobi in ELRC Petition No. 65 of 2020 involved the respondent, Moriasi Arabu Josiah, (as petitioner) who sued the applicants, Youth Enterprise Development Fund Board and the Chairman, Youth Enterprise Development Fund Board regarding the issue whether the respondent was entitled to be retained as the Chief Executive Officer of the 1st applicant. It was contended by the applicants that the respondent had been employed as such on a fixed 3 year contract; that the contract had expired by effluxion of time; that the contract had been extended for 6 months and that in the meantime the applicants had recruited a substantive Chief Executive Officer. Wasilwa, J., who heard the m…