Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Every Ugandan will have to pay a minimum of 100,000 Shillings in annual premiums if they want to access health care under the National Health Insurance scheme. According to the current bill, all persons aged 18 and above are liable to making contributions. Employees in …
Read More »Mbarara-based Pearl Dairy Farm lays off 1500 workers
Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 1,500 employees at Pearl Dairy Farms Lts have been laid off, almost a year after the company stopped exporting milk and milk products to Kenya. The yet unresolved trade Uganda-Kenya trade war, first in the dairy sector, and recently with maize, plus the effects …
Read More »Royal foam mattress factory on fire again
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fire has gutted the Royal Foam Mattress factory in Kyambogo destroying mattresses and property worth millions of shillings. Residents told URN that they saw a huge cloud of smoke as fire ravaged the factory this morning. It was still unclear whether there any causalities by …
Read More »Significant number of people want to change jobs post COVID-19 – Study
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A global study involving employees of small and medium enterprises sampled from countries in Asia, Africa and Europe, United Arab Emirates and the US has found that the majority of people want flexible working structure post-COVID-19 where they continue to mostly work from home …
Read More »Former NYTIL workers spend 25 years begging for their pay
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A quarter of a century since their services were terminated, over 3,500 former employees of Nyanza Textile Industries Limited-NYTIL are still pleading to be paid the packages due to them. The desperate ex-workers, now 25 years older, were discontinued from NYTIL when the Jinja …
Read More »Five Dfcu bank staff test positive for Covid-19
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dfcu Bank has shut its Lugogo Branch in Kampala after five of its staff tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). The Bank said in a notice last night that “all exposed colleagues in the branch are undergoing tests and will be required to self-isolate for 14 …
Read More »Trump’s executive order on payroll tax deferral “unworkable”: business groups
Washington, US | XINHUA | More than 30 major U.S. business groups said on Tuesday that they’re unlikely to implement President Donald Trump’s recent executive order (EO) on payroll tax deferral as it would prove “unworkable” and impose a large tax bill on American families next year. “Under current law, …
Read More »Toyota Uganda staff under quarantine after 3 COVID-19 cases found
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Toyota Uganda has temporarily closed its Kampala branch at First Street, Industrial area after three of their staff tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19). In a statement issued today by Mahmood Omar, the Managing Director, the branch will be temporarily closed effective today as additional steps, …
Read More »Sunbelt factory on the spot over poor working conditions, sexual harassment
Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Casual laborers in Sunbelt Factory in Jinja City have accused superiors of sexual abuse and failure to adhere to the minimum working conditions. The employees raised the complaints during the meeting the Jinja District Worker’s representative on Friday. Some of the casual laborers accused their …
Read More »Employers may be held accountable in case of COVID-19 in workplaces
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Employers may face lawsuits if their employees claim there was not much done to protect them against catching the coronavirus (COVID-19) while at work. Speaking at the Federation of Uganda Employers’ zoom meeting on Wednesday afternoon, Medard Sseggona, a lawyer said it was employers’ …
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