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ALL employees of Kinyara Sugar Works Ltd will retain their jobs as the new management takes over the sugar factory.
The new executive director Mr Sarbjit Sing Rai said this on October 25 during the formal handover of the factory to the new management, the Rai Group. The function took place at the sugar factory in Kinyara, Masindi.
"There will be no job loses and there should be no fear at all in respect to any loss of interference with the company's obligations to staff going forward," Sarbjit said while addressing the company's employees at KSWL social club.
"It is our stated objective and legal obligation to ensure that all gratuity and service related benefits are respected," he said
The announcement put to rest, the uncertainty and the rather sombre mood that had engulfed workers at the function. On October 20, the Government handed over the 51 percent shares to the Rai Group. The Rai, who were the highest bidder, submitted $33.5 million (about Shs62 billion). KSWL has a workforce of 3,250 workers who include both permanent and seasonal employees.
The outgoing General Manager Booker Tate Ltd, the company which has been managing Kinyara, Mr Jack Mclean, welcomed new management saying it will continue building Kinyara.
Mr Christian Fookune replaces Mclean as new General Manager. The National Head of the Union of Plantation and Agricultural Workers, Mr Joram Pajobo, who also is the Workers MP, urged the new management to maintain the terms and condition of service and improve them even better.