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98 Coca Cola Workers To Go Home

By Daily Guide
Business & Finance 98 Coca Cola Workers To Go Home
APR 2, 2015 LISTEN

Ninety-eight employees of the Coca Cola Company Limited are expected to be shown the exit with another batch of 113 workers penciled to be sent home within this month.

Coca-Cola began the process to lay off some of its employees this month following the worsening effects of the current power crisis and the depreciation of the cedi.

General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, Solomon Kotei said 'there are two phases in March and April, so the 211 are not all going at the same day, a batch will go today and another will go April ending. Per our records 98 are going home today and we have concluded all negotiations and those going today have their cheques.'

Mr Kotei noted that there was a clause in the final Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the Coca Cola Company Limited that in the event of a revamp of the company the retrenched staff will be the first to be considered for employment.

Coca-Cola is one of many companies that have announced plans to lay off workers this year due to the current economic challenges.

Coca Cola Company Limited intends to lay off 238 workers, 180 by Mantrac Ghana, 58 by Cadbury Ghana Limited and 26, Novotel Hotel.

Hundreds of miners, as well as workers in most manufacturing companies are also expected to be sent home this year.

Earlier the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union told the media that over 560 of its members from January to early March this year had been laid off.

Meanwhile, the union says it has engaged the services of a psychiatric doctor and professional counselors to take staff through training before they are laid off.

'Well it is a painful sight and it is not a pleasant exercise that is why we did the training to allow a psychological clinician to help them and encourage them to see that being laid off is not the end of life and that they should believe in themselves that they can make the best out of life even after being laid off from their current employment.'

- Citifmonline

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