The Supreme Court has upheld Court of Appeal ruling demanding the teachers’ employer to pay them a 50-60pc pay raise until its case challenging the increment is heard and determined.
In their ruling, judges Willy Mutunga, Kalpana Rawal, Jackton Ojwang, Mohamed Ibrahim and Smokin Wanjala said they had no jurisdiction to entertain the application.
The orders, they said, were issued by the Court of Appeal which had exercised its powers under the law.
The Labour Court had ruled that teachers be awarded the pay rise effective August 1, a ruling that was upheld by the Court of Appeal. Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary General Wilson Sossion welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court saying teachers have been given clean bill of health by all courts in this country.
