Employees at a flower
farm in Nanyuki, Laikipia are appealing to the Central Organization of Trade
Unions (COTU) to rescue them from an impending layoff at their place of work.
This is after the
management of Kongoni River Farm issued
them with letters on a three months’ unpaid
leave only to declare them redundant when the leave ended.
The 140 workers claim
that the management of the farm scaled-down operations three months ago at the
farm located near Likii village.
The management cites reduced flower export business
due to Covid-19 and consequently sent them on leave.
The workers stormed
the flower farm seeking to have a meeting with the management that did not materialize.
Farm’s Human Resource Manager Charles Kamau said
the employees had been declared redundant.
Those who wish to
remain will be engaged on a temporary
basis as casuals, said the management.
