Employers predict job losses this year


Nation | by James Kariuki

Employers say Kenya will have lost over a million formal jobs to Covid-19 come December this year.

The Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) said the pandemic wiped out 173,743 positions following imposition of a raft of restrictive measures to tame infections.

Releasing survey findings yesterday, FKE said the 8.3 percent job losses that occurred between March to July portend more trouble if nothing is done to reverse the trend…

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