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Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Poor Performance at Work Is Not Sufficient Ground For Employer to ... - Tuko.co.ke

  • Labour relations and employment law expert Samuel Ochieng said that poor performance in not the same as gross misconduct
  • The lawyer explained that an employer can immediately fire an employee due to gross misconduct but not for incompetence
  • He stated that an employer has the obligation to give an employee deemed to be performing poorly reasonable time and opportunity to improve before firing them

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Poor performance at work by employees remains to be a headache to employers, not only in Kenya, but the world over.

Summary dismissal grounds

Besides redundancy, companies' restructuring and misconduct, poor performance is listed among reasons why employers would terminate their engagement with employees.

However, it is illegal for an employer to summarily dismiss an employee due to poor performance.

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