{"id":194874,"date":"2025-03-29T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-court-orders-marketforce-to-pay-16k-for-wrongful-termination\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:47:33","slug":"kenyan-court-orders-marketforce-to-pay-16k-for-wrongful-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-court-orders-marketforce-to-pay-16k-for-wrongful-termination\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Court Orders Marketforce to Pay $16k for Wrongful Termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Marketforce Technologies has been ordered to pay KES 2.1 million ($16,000) to former employee Tom Maina Chege for wrongful terminatio<\/li>\n<li> Chege claimed the termination violated Kenya&#8217;s Employment Act due to insufficient notice and lack of notification to the Labour Office<\/li>\n<li> Marketforce did not defend itself in court. Judge C.N. Baari awarded Chege KES 1.3 million ($10,000) in terminal dues and KES 800,000 ($6,000) in compensation and legal costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Marketforce Technologies has been ordered to pay KES&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503280503.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Marketforce Technologies has been ordered to pay KES 2.1 million ($16,000) to former employee Tom Maina Chege for wrongful terminatio Chege claimed the termination violated Kenya&#8217;s Employment Act due to insufficient notice and lack of notification to the Labour Office Marketforce did not defend itself in court. Judge C.N. Baari awarded Chege KES 1.3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":194875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[50994,258,256,6185,430,4524,50993,257,6186,9105,254,18010,43224],"class_list":["post-194874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-16k","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-marketforce","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-pay","tag-south-africa-today","tag-termination","tag-wrongful"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}