Business Daily | by John Mutua
Parents who adopt children will enjoy fully paid leave after President Uhuru Kenyatta assented to the Employment (Amendment) Bill of 2019. The law compels employers to give a one-month paid leave to the adoptive parents.
The changes, however, exclude parents of children born through surrogacy after President Kenyatta declined the provision on grounds that Kenya lacks a substantive legal and regulatory framework to protect all parties within the surrogacy arrangement.
Kenya’s law allows a fully paid, two-week paternity break for fathers and a three-month maternity leave for…
