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Tuskys Supermarkets is locked in court fight with its workers’ union opposed to retailer’s layoff of 80 employees.
The Kenya Union of Commercial Foods and Allied Workers wants the retailer to opt for unpaid leave during the period of Covid-19 instead of job cuts.
The union petitioned the court to stop the redundancies because the retailer was increasing its reliance on outsourced staff.
“The respondent cannot be allowed to declared redundancies when at the same time retaining a large number of outsourced labour as this means that regular employees who are union members are not wanted,” says union’s secretary-general Boniface Kavuvi in the court papers.
“That where the redundancy is inevitable, this court do order the respondent to observe the principle of last-in-first-out in the selection of employees to be affected looking at the entire labor force including outsourced labour,” the union told the court.
