Over 100 employees of Mediamax limited who were sacked on Sunday night will be paid their final dues in 2023.
The employees told Hot News that that they were summoned to Emory Hotel in Kileleshwa on Sunday evening via a text message.
“How does a company sack people at night! I arrived at the Hotel in the morning. I found one of the HR persons who told me my dues will be processed in 2023 because the company doesn’t have money,” said an employee who requested anonymity.
The employees also told Hot News that Media Max CEO Ken Ngariuya told them off.
“Even the President ignores court orders, will pay your dues within 3 years, no court will tell me how to pay you,” Ngaruiya allegedly told some of the employees.
The former Mediamax staffers said they have not received their pay since April.
On 11th June Mercy Milanoi and 35 other employees withdrew a case they had filed at the Employment and Labor Relations court.
In petition number 59 of 2020, before Justice Byram Ongaya, court documents said that by consent, the suit the employees had filed was withdrawn.
Mediamax and the court agreed not to have the employees pay for their suit.
Mediamax also agreed not to effect any pay cuts.
However, the employees were not lucky since it was finally agreed that “the affected staff may go on redundancy as per the law and prevailing contracts,”
On 10th June, the employment Court ordered Mediamax to pay its employees full salaries for April and May.
Employees had moved to court to block Mediamax from slashing their salaries by between 20-50 percent, because of Covid-19.
However, the sacked employees said Mediamax has violated the court terms.
“Last week, the company employed 30 people to replace us. Claims that the Company is broke due to the hard-economic times are false,” said the employee.
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