Public-holiday planning
- Use the planner to place annual leave immediately before or after public holidays and weekends; then confirm the exact holiday calendar and entitlement with your employer before booking.
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🇰🇪Kenya
The Employment Act provides not less than 21 working days of paid annual leave after every twelve consecutive months of service.
Statutory paid annual leaveAt least 21 working days after 12 consecutive monthsAnnual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent21 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedKenya Law — Employment Act
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Legal basis and comparison method
The Employment Act provides not less than 21 working days of paid annual leave after every twelve consecutive months of service.
Regional and calendar caveats
The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.
Official employment source: Kenya Law — Employment Act. Open official guidance ↗
This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.
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The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.
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