Sale of sugar millers stalls on Sh3.5bn workers claim


Business Daily | by Otiato Guguyu

The five State millers set for privatisation owe workers Sh3.5 billion in back salaries and statutory deduction, prompting the employees to stall their privatisation.

The Kenya Union of Sugar Plantation & Allied Workers (KUSPAW) says Chemelil Sugar Factory, Sony Sugar Factory, Miwani Sugar Factory, Muhoroni Sugar Factory and Nzoia Sugar Factory owe its 3,500 members the billions in salary arrears.

The union said the government had advertised tenders in July this year for private companies to take over the millers without consulting them or indicating how they would get their dues…

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