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By Daniel Chege | January 17th 2021 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300
Vegpro Company employees. [Courtesy]
A union has moved to court to challenge the dismissal of 970 workers from a flower company in Naivasha.
The Kenya Export Floriculture, Horticulture and Allied Workers Union has sued Vegpro Company Limited, a floriculture and horticulture growing and exporting company, which owns Delamere Pivots and Gorge Farm, where the sacked employees worked.
In the suit before Employment and Labour Relations Court Judge Hellen Wasilwa, the union wants the company s action of dismissing the staff to be declared unprocedural, unfair and wrongful. The court be pleased to order the reinstatement of the employees to their former respective employment status from June 4, 2019 without loss of all benefits,” reads the suit.