The Milimani Law Court has suspended the one month jail sentence handed to doctors by five days to allow negotiations and call off the strike.
“I will take time and review the orders and I will suspend the orders for five days which will expire on January, 31,” Employment and Labour Relations Court Judge Hellen Wasilwa said on Thursday.
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She also ordered the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union to continue talks with the government. KMPDU officials had appeared before Judge Wasilwa to give an update of the ongoing negotiations on increased pay talks with the Health ministry.
In their application, the officials have attached minutes of the several meetings they have held with the ministry to their case documents as proof of what has been transpiring in the past two weeks.
The judge had faulted the officials for adamantly disobeying orders of the court while referring to CBA, which she said she was not aware of since the eight had failed to turn up in court as requested to explain themselves.
“As we sit, there is no CBA registered, one which can be applied and implemented. I do not know what you are complaining about and I think if you call off the strike it will take faster to resolve this stalemate than those boardroom meetings,” she said.
