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Saturday, December 31, 2022 –Standard Group staff could soon pour on the streets in protest of delayed salaries now stretching into fourth month.
An impeccable source has told this media outlet that the industrial action could kick off from January 6 should the employer continue withholding their salaries.
The same 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.
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.
“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.
This behavior by the media house degenerated into un-payment of salaries as well as arbitrary reduction of staff’s monthly salaries.
“This is inhuman and demonstrates impunity as staff have for the past three months struggled to meet their financial obligations in the wake of soaring cost of living being experienced across the country. The staff have been deprived dignity, especially during this festive season where families enjoy the fruit of their hard labour,” the KUJ statement partly read.
It is reported that, so far, many journalists have run out of financial options some depleting their SACCO savings.
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