Am requesting the Government agencies to intervene.
This supermarkets are misusing young youths in the name of Employment.
Once you apply for any job
The first interview is, you are kept standing for a whole day, in pretext that you don’t get time to sit down when employment.
The worst part of it is the Working hours, Remuneration, off days and company uniform.
Staffs here report at 7.30 am daily.
They close work at 11.00 pm
Salary is 16 K per month.,when you deduct the NHIF and NSSF respectively, and Paye, they go home with 13500k.
Once you are employed, you are supposed to buy the uniform that they brand the shirts at 50 Bob.
You are only granted one off day per week.
Plus a sample of comments
Kitengela they are not even given water to drink they buy plus if anything goes shot they have to pay unapata mtu a napata pesa less
Nikiwa Kenya l worked Ruiru branch l paid for stock not balancing
Hehe na pia ukipata excess unalipa eti ulimwibia customer nkt
Nothing like supper
You close doors at 9 pm
From there, you take the entire stock physically,you even count sweets
Despite the supermarket having a Developed software for stock taking and sales.
The worst of all is if you fall ill, even if you report with the doctors report, you are deducted the days you were sick from your pay days.
Enda industrial area ama company zingine hapo athiriver utajua huko ni kuzuri. Nimefanya hizo companies na ni chemicals. Salary unabaki na 9k. No safety. Wakiona umeanza kugojenga, wanajua umeadhilika na hizo chemicals unaweza kufia huko wanakusimamisha kazi. Hata watu wengi sana hukufa wakitoka huko. Nyi ni wale hawataki kuchoka.
Go tell that to atwoli, there are no Labour laws in Kenya, actually there’s no rule of law in kenya, politicians and friends own companies, who do you go complain to?
When people are told to vote wisely , they ignore and vote for shitty politicians , then they come post such things here.
It’s a trickle down effect.
Shikana na mtu/watu amepitia hapo. Do a video then post it on Youtube etc. Lazima uwe na evidence solid to back you up. Many know that people are desparate and think that even if they take advantage of them there is nowhere they will be taken.
mimi nilitoka pare Ekwete after directors kuanza story za staff kujilipia medical cover & still they remit NHIF deductions, working from 7:00am to 7:00pm, no lunch breaks, u only go for leave in bits of 1 week. I thank God I could think st8 for myself and quit. it’s total slavery in Kenya even in the so called big corporates but people are voiceless
I’ve done such a kind of job for an employer whom I cannot mention here. Ukiwacha kazi hapo you are replaced immediately if your position cannot be left without someone. I quit on the second month. But there are people who really need those jobs and have no alternatives. And they are resilient you would’nt know the troubles they go through to earn a few shillings. I would advise you guys to open a trade union or find one related to your industry and join. As a founder member you can become influential.
The working conditions in some of this supermarkets is deplorable.You wonder how those employees manage to pull off those crazy working hours.
This organizations are just taking advantage of the cheap labour,which is available unfortunately due to the astronomical unemployment figures in the country.
Fresh from uni,I had a brief stint at one of the local banks.The experience there was a nightmare,from the crazy working hours to the lack of a union for employees welfare,the list is endless.The fate of the employees is left to the fat cats,the directors whose only motivation is declaring billions in profits.This directors and top management also take the lions share of the organizations’wage bill while the employees on the ground doing the donkey work are only left to eat crumbs.
In my mind I was convinced I would be better off going to the village to tend to my old mans farm than slave away in the city for peanuts.
The day I decided to quit,I never looked back.One my life’s best decisions.
Its a sorry state of affairs out there.Most of these employees ni kuvumilia tu,waiting for their lucky break.
my experience in the banking industry taught me that some hustlers like makangas, watu wa mutura, those guys selling sausage and eggs make more doo than graduates. hiyo kuvumilia is mostly out of fear of life in the streets (read - unemployed)