The leaders of the Kenyan doctors currently on strike have been ordered once again by the employment and labour relations court in that country to call off the strike or risk going to jail.
According to the Daily Nation the Employment and Labour Relations Court Judge Hellen Wasilwa on Thursday ordered the leaders of the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union to resume talks with the government.
The doctors are agitating over conditions of service. They want a Collective Bargaining Agreement signed in 2013 is implemented by the government.
But the judge sitting on the case, seeking to compel the doctors to go back to work, said the issue is of great public interest.
Executives of the doctors’ union were in court to give an update of the ongoing negotiations with the country’s health ministry on their demands for pay rise.
They also wanted to know what happens to them after the judge threatened to order their arrests and jailing for not calling off the strike.
Source: Africafeeds.com
