Imagine working somewhere in the Capital and that is the only place that helps you put Ugali on the table, pay rent and bills and the same money is what your old folks survive on at home.
Then you wake up one day to find a message like this, “regretfully we have decided to lay you off since the company no longer requires your services…We are sorry for any inconvenience caused…”
Well, this has not been news in Kenya, but when it affects you in one way or another you can understand the pain in a Tuskys’ worker right now.
Tuskys supermarket has decided to lay off part of its staff saying that it needs to restructure and deal with the tough economic times.
Even though the retailer did not reveal the exact number of the staff it wants to send home, sources revealed that the process will affect almost all its outlets countrywide.
“Regretfully, you are among the employees whom Tusker Mattresses Limited can no-longer continue to offer employment and will terminate your employment contract with effect from March 19, 2020, on account of redundancy,” read a letter to one of the employees.
One of the staff members who spoke to a local daily revealed that the reorganization process took place about two weeks ago and it affected almost all the departments.
Tuskys said the employees who have been sent home will receive one month’s salary (full), receive payment of any untaken leave days. The retailer set April 4th, 2020 as the date when termination dues would be collected.
Tuskys is among the leading retailers in Kenya with over 65 outlets both in Kenya and Uganda. Prior to the firing announcement, it had employed about 6000 individuals.
Tuskys now joins a group of companies that have sent home their employees due to economic crises.
Companies like Telkom Kenya, Finlay’s, Air Afrik, East African Portland Cement, Stanbic Bank, East African Breweries Limited among others fired their employees in 2019 to reduce their expenditure on salaries.
Betting firms Sportpesa and Betin had to lay off workers since they were exiting the Kenyan market.
From January 2019 to October 2019, about 7000 employees had been sent parking by their employers.
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