Saturday, December 31, 2022 –Standard Group SG staff could soon pour on the streets in protest of delayed salaries now stretching into the fourth month.
This planned industrial action could kick off from January 6 should the employer continue withholding their salaries.
The source from within, confirmed that workers’ salaries have not been released now three months; something that has plunged most of them into troubling financial crisis.
According to Kenya Union of Journalists KUJ, Standard Group is already served with a strike notice dated December 23 which demands full payments of any salary arrears.
“This insensitivity and don’t care attitude has been going on for three months, and to add salt to the injury, the management has unilaterally decided to chop salaries of staff in total disregard to the Employment Act that protects salaries of staff from unlawful deductions. The company only paid 80 percent of staff salaries for the month of October, and kept quiet about the remaining 20 percent,” the union asserted.
KUJ argues that the company has been attributing its financial woes to the three-year COVID-19 pandemic what nolonger makes sense now.
It added that even before the pandemic hit the country, the giant media outlet behaved in manner that demeaned the welfare of its workforce. For instance, failure to implement clauses of Collective Bargaining Agreement CBA on leave allowance.
