Former Standard Media Group employees have announced plans to hold demonstrations beginning Wednesday, April 9, to demand payment of their salary arrears.
In a recent statement, the former employees noted that they would be submitting a formal request to the police for a permit to protest against the media house.
The ex-workers accused the company of a systematic pattern of industrial misconduct, including unpaid salary arrears and lack of severance pay.
Ex-Standard Group employees announce mega demonstrations over salary arrears. Photo: Courtesy.
According to them, the delays in salary payments had negatively impacted them, leaving their families in financial distress and without access to vital services.
They moreover accused the media outlet of allegedly failing to remit critical deductions from employees’ payslips, including contributions to Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCOS), pension and taxes.
The former employees revealed that they had gone for eight months without a salary despite frequent promises by the company to settle the debt.
They further disclosed that in the most recent redundancy exercise, employees were coerced and duped into signing and accepting a one-year payment plan, which never came.
The former workers are now calling on the government, labour unions, relevant stakeholders in the media industry and the public to support their pursuit of justice.
This is not the first time the journalists have come out to demand their pay.
In December last year, the company’s former employees staged demonstrations outside the company premises over unpaid arrears.
