Court blocks KQ pilots from striking
What you need to know:
- Justice Nduma Nderi issued the orders on Wednesday barring the Kenya Airline Pilots Association from engaging in any industrial action on the grounds of mismanagement on the part of Kenya Airways.
- The pilots’ association had said Mr Ngunze's efforts would not be successful while accusing KQ’s management of being responsible for the woes bedevilling the national carrier.
The Employment and Labour Relations Court has stopped Kenya Airways pilots from going on strike from Thursday.
Justice Nduma Nderi issued the orders on Wednesday barring the Kenya Airline Pilots Association from engaging in any industrial action on the grounds of mismanagement on the part of Kenya Airways.
The pilots wanted to use the strike to force out KQ chief executive Mbuvi Ngunze.
They also wanted to compel the airline to review its 20-year-old deal with KLM in which the latter has a bigger say on the national carrier.
“An interim order be and is hereby granted restraining the Respondents, its members, agents, servants and or sympathisers from calling, participating or engaging in any form of industrial action including strikes…,” said Justice Nderi.
The pilots’ association had said Mr Ngunze's efforts would not be successful while accusing KQ’s management of being responsible for the woes bedevilling the national carrier.
They said gross mismanagement and fraud had cost KQ billions of shillings.
They argued that incompetence was the reason the company was unable to meet its revenue targets.
The judge said the case would be heard on May 9.
