The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Amount of compensation in case of death
(1) If an employee dies as a result of an injury caused by an accident, compensation shall be paid to the dependants of the employ…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Compensation to employee previously in receipt of compensation
(1) In awarding compensation to an employee in respect of permanent disablement or in reviewing an award of compensation, the Dire…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Compensation for permanent disablement of employee in training
If as a result of an accident an employee sustains permanent disablement and at the time of the accident was an apprentice or in t…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Amendment of First Schedule
The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Director and in consultation with the Council, amend the First Schedule by notice i…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Compensation for permanent disablement
(1) Compensation for permanent disablement shall be calculated on the basis of ninety-six months earnings subject to the minimum a…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Expiry of compensation for temporary total or partial disablement
(1) The right to compensation for temporary, total or partial disablement expires— (a) upon the termination of the disablement or…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Compensation for temporary total or partial disablement
(1) An employee who suffers temporary total disablement due to an accident that incapacitates the employee for three days or longe…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Lapse of right to benefits
(1) A right to benefits in accordance with this Act shall lapse if the accident is not reported to the employer within twelve mont…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Claim for compensation
(1)A claim for compensation in accordance with this Act shall be lodged by or on behalf of the claimant in the prescribed manner w…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Employee to submit to medical examination
(1) An employee who claims compensation or to whom compensation has been paid or is payable, shall when required by the Director o…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Particulars in support of claim
(1) An employee who is injured in an accident or his dependant, shall, when reporting the accident or thereafter at the request of…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Inquiry by Director
(1) After having received notice of an accident or having learned that an employee has been injured in an accident the Director sh…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Compensation not to part of deceased employee’s estate
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, an employer shall report an accident to the Director in the prescribed manner withi…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Notice of accident by employee to employer
Written or verbal notice of any accident provided for in section 22 which occurs during employment shall be given by or on behalf…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Compensation not to part of deceased employee’s estate
Compensation paid under this Act for the death of an employee shall not form part of the employee’s estate.
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Compensation not to be alienated
(1) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any written law, compensation shall not be— (a) assigned or pledged; (b) capa…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Threats and compulsion
Any person who threatens an employee or in any manner compels or influences an employee to do something resulting in or directed a…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Claims against third parties
(1) If an occupational accident or disease in respect of which compensation is payable, was caused in circumstances resulting in a…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Substitution of compensation for other legal remedies
No action shall lie by an employee or any dependant of an employee for the recovery of damages in respect of any occupational acci…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Employee requiring constant assistance
(1) If an injury in respect of which compensation is payable causes disablement of such a nature that the employee is unable to pe…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Special circumstances in which the Director may order compensation.
If in a claim for compensation under this Act it appears that the contract of service apprenticeship or learnership of the employe…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Special circumstances in which Director may refuse award
The Director may refuse to grant compensation under this Act to an employee if— (a) the employee at any time represented to the em…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Accidents during training for or performance of emergency services
If an employee is injured in an occupational accident or contracts an occupational disease while the employee, with the consent of…
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The Work Injury Benefits Act CAP 236▤
Accident outside Kenya
(1) If an employer carries on business chiefly in Kenya and an employee ordinarily employed in Kenya is injured in an accident whi…
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