Employment Law: Sick Leave Laws in Kenya

Below is section 30 of the Kenya employment act which provides for laws concerning sick leave in Kenya.

30. Sick leave
(1) After two consecutive months of service with his employer, an employee
shall be entitled to sick leave of not less than seven days with full pay and
thereafter to sick leave of seven days with half pay, in each period of twelve
consecutive months of service, subject to production by the employee of a
certificate of incapacity to work signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner or
a person acting on the practitioner’s behalf in charge of a dispensary or medical
aid centre.
(2) For an employee to be entitled to sick leave with full pay under
subsection (1), the employee shall notify or cause to be notified as soon as is
reasonably practicable his employer of his absence and the reasons for it.
(3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2) “full pay” includes wages at
the basic rate excluding deductions from the wages allowable under section 19.