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Browsing: Kenya Labour Laws
- To unlock Kenya’s potential, the government acknowledges the need to address legal challenges hindering job creation in the digital sector.
- Kenya’s current labor laws were created in 2007 when the digital economy was young.
- Globally, the digital economy is emerging as a transformative force in economies, helping create jobs.
The Government of Kenya, through the State Department for Industrialization, has reaffirmed its commitment to collaborate with industry stakeholders to address gaps in the country’s labour laws that are hindering job creation in the burgeoning digital economy.
During a visit to Sama, a firm dealing in provision of data annotation solutions that power the AI models of the future, the Principal Secretary State Department for Industrialization Dr. Juma Mukhawana, assured a closer working relationship with Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry stakeholders.
The focus of the engagements will be to address gaps in the labour laws and to prime the rapidly …