The Employer of the Year Awards (EYA) is an initiative by the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) that is geared towards promoting and encouraging best practices in Corporate Performance, People Management and Industrial Relations practices amongst employers in Kenya. This is in a bid to raise and sustain productivity, enterprise performance and responsibility. This is an annual award that provides a platform for identifying, ranking and recognizing excellence in Corporate Performance, People Management and Industrial Relations amongst employers in Kenya.


What will EYA do?Criteria for the AwardsRules of Awards

What will EYA do?

The Employer of the Year Awards seek to fete organizations, which see people as their core business and have implemented policies, systems and processes that create and sustain enterprise competitiveness, productivity along with industrial peace and harmony.
Specific Objectives

  • To recognize and publicly award FKE members who have exhibited excellence Corporate Performance, People Management and Industrial Relations over the year in review.
  • To provide a platform for discussion and agenda setting on the need to embrace best practices in Corporate Performance, People Management and Industrial Relations through a well branded, presented and organized event.
  • To compile and disseminate information on the status Corporate Performance, People Management and Industrial Relations in Kenya and identify areas for improvement and emerging trends.
  • To provide feedback to participating employers on their status regarding attainment of best practices in Corporate Performance, People Management and Industrial Relations.

Why should you participate?

The Employer of the Year Awards is meant to publicly honor employers implementing best practices for others to emulate its example. Through such exposure, employers will have an extra channel of enhancing their brand profiles as leading and responsible employers in Kenya, contributing both to economic prosperity and industrial relations peace in Kenya. Winners will also be able to apply in their organizations branding the ‘Employer of the Year Award’ tag in the various categories for a period of one year.
All participating employers will receive a national report of the survey which will annually assist companies to assess their processes and practices.