Nairobi, Aug. 6 -- The Employment and Labour Relations Court has backed a decision by the operators of supermarket chain Carrefour to summarily dismiss a former head of its retail store in Kisumu for accepting undisclosed Sh40,000 cash payments from a registered supplier.

The court ruled that Cornelius Bulimo breached the company's code of ethics by accepting two equal batches of Sh20,000 payments from a supplier, identified in court records as Peter Mbui, creating a conflict of interest while serving as the senior manager at the Kisumu branch.

"The claimant clearly breached the code of ethics in accepting money from the respondent's supplier. The Code of Ethics provides that an employee must not derive personal benefit from a relations...