“We’re suffering yet we chose Ruto,” Employees protest after mass sacking
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Embu County employees protest mass sacking as they call on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to intervene
Embu County employees protest mass sacking as they call on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua to intervene.
A group of Embu County employees on Thursday stormed the county headquarters to protest recent mass layoffs.
About 99 workers’ contracts were allegedly not renewed by the county administration without valid justification, according to the workers’ accusations.
The workers demanded that Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua step in and to stop the arbitrary sackings and return their employment.
“Gachagua, we are suffering. We chose UDA (United Democratic Alliance), and we are hustlers being harassed like this. Which side of Mt Kenya are we in,” a worker furiously lamented.
The employees claim that the county government fired them without cause and then hired new people from outside the county.
The retrenched employees thus faulted the county government for failing to give them priority during the recruitment.
“They laid them off, many of us, and they employed people from outside and told us one morning without notice,” lamented one worker.
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Another worker noted that expelled employees were facing financial constraints after they were rendered jobless.
“If it is possible, let these people be reinstated so that they can continue with their jobs,” noted one of the protestors.
While addressing the press, the county workers’ representative also accused the county government of contemptuously tarnishing the reputation of the workers by sacking them.
The workers also complained that their replacements were elderly and thus could not work at the same rate they did.
“We will not agree. This is improper and against all forms of employment, so we reject the move not to follow the law,” the workers’ representative noted.
The protesting workers vowed to seek legal redress and be reinstated since most of them have families that depend on them.
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