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THIS WEEK: Ex-KCC workers renew fight for Shs90bn
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In what has become a recurrent fight, ex-workers of the defunct Kampala City Council (KCC) are demanding their terminal benefits and salary arrears following their sacking in 2012.
The workers are demanding an estimated Shs92 billion which court awarded them. A total of 1,013 these former KCC staff worked as lawyers, division town clerks, administrative assistants, council and enforcement agents. Early this year, the High Court ordered the government to pay the workers more than Shs92.2 billion with interest at 6 per cent per year until full payment.
Court ruled that the former workers were entitled to damages for wrongful retirement from service and hence be paid their terminal benefits and salary arrears. Following the court judgment, President Museveni ordered Kampala Affairs minister, Beti Kamya, to take appropriate action to save government from incurring more financial loss.
