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Opinion: Cheap labour won’t industrialise Kenya – Tony Watima

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[Source: Business Daily, by Tony Watima]

Two weeks ago, a young engineer shared on Twitter how he got a job at a company producing bottle caps where he was required to work for 12 hours during the day and 13 hours night shift. Shockingly, in between the long shifts, sometimes the employees work for 18 hours, taking only a 10-minute break.

There is no other description of such grave violation of labour laws than modern-day slavery for profit.

He only worked for one day because the job demanded heavy lifting which overwhelmed him, but he was able to quantify his output for that day.

By the end of his shift, he had done 1.2 million bottle caps and…

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