JANE ANSELINE MWALISHI MANONO V AFRICA LABOUR CONSULTANTS INSTITUTE & ANOTHER [2013] KEELRC 313 (KLR)
The bottom line
#What this practically means
#Executive summary
#Key legal issues
#Whether the leave allowance awarded should be recalculated at a full month's salary per year
The court's calculation based on 21 days annual leave was correct and was not varied
The Claimant asserted that pay in lieu of annual leave should have been calculated at a full month's salary for each year of service, amounting to Shs.107,888.00 rather than the Shs.75,521.60 awarded. The court re-examined the calculations and found its own approach correct: statutory annual leave entitlement is 21 days, so the leave allowance was properly computed on 21 days' salary per year of service rather than a full month's salary.
Whether the maximum compensation was erroneously multiplied by 16 instead of 12
The multiplication for maximum compensation was corrected from 16 to 12, reducing the compensation award to Kshs.93,053
The Respondents, in response to the Claimant's letter, identified an error in the computation of maximum compensation, which had been multiplied by 16 instead of 12 months' salary. The court reviewed the calculations, agreed the error existed, and corrected the multiplier to 12. This reduced the compensation head from the previously awarded figure to Kshs.93,053, and correspondingly affected the total award.
Whether there was an arithmetic error in the total of the award
The court confirmed there was an error in the addition of the total award and corrected the total to Kshs.301,393.15
The Claimant had notified the court that, even without the correction on leave allowance, there was an addition error in the total awarded. The court verified the figures and agreed there was an addition error. After correcting the maximum compensation multiplier from 16 to 12, the court recalculated and corrected the total award to Kshs.301,393.15, down from Shs.306,508.85 as originally awarded.
Legal principles established
#- The court may correct errors in its own judgment on calculation of awards, including arithmetic errors in totals and erroneous multiplication factors, whether raised by a party or noted by the court
- Pay in lieu of annual leave is calculated on the basis of 21 days annual leave per year, not a full month's salary
Court orders
#- 1.Correction of the judgment of 27th February 2013 by revising the maximum compensation to 12 months' multiplication, reducing compensation to Kshs.93,053
- 2.Correction of the total award to Kshs.301,393.15
- 3.Rejection of the Claimant's request to revise the leave allowance calculation
- Jurisdiction invoked
- The Industrial Court's jurisdiction over its own judgment to correct errors in calculation of an award (Cause 63 of 2012)
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#Cite this brief
#Cite this brief
Caselaw, "JANE ANSELINE MWALISHI MANONO V AFRICA LABOUR CONSULTANTS INSTITUTE & ANOTHER [2013] KEELRC 313 (KLR)", Case Analysis (2013). Cause 63 of 2012. Source: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/keelrc/2013/313/eng@2013-05-08
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