Pride Inn Hotel denies it wants to sack workers

Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 00:00 -- BY CHARLES MGHENYI

PRIDE Inn Hotel management have defended themselves over claims they are planning to sack workers. On Monday, the hotel employees told the press that the management was leaving the hired hotel premises at Sai Rock-Pride Inn on the Mombasa-Malindi highway and asking them to sign transfer letters to another branch behind Nakumatt Nyali.
The more than 80 employees expressed fears that the other branch had a capacity of less than 20 workers hence it was one way of retrenching them.
However, Pride Inn MD Hasnain Noorani yesterday said they were forcefully told to vacate the Sai Rock Hotel by the premises owners without notice. Noorani said they had signed a management contract with the premises owners but were on Saturday given orders to vacate.
“It is not our policy to sack our employees. We told them what was happening but they refuse to understand,” he said. The MD said they were caught off-guard and had no alternative but to think of the next option which was to transfer all the workers to their other branches in Mombasa.
Pride Inn hotel has three outlets in Mombasa—Pride Inn hotel Haile Selassie branch, Pride Inn Nyali and Pride Inn Sai Rock Hotel which is the centre of controversy.
“It is unfortunate that we are losing our beach hotel in unclear circumstances but we promise to follow up the issue in court,” Noorani added. The workers complained that the management has been moving out of the premises secretly without telling them about their fate and leaving them to run the hotel from the daily collections, allegations the MD denied.
On Tuesday the workers and the management met with labour officers in Mombasa to resolve the issue and it was agreed that the employees were still under Pride Inn hotel.
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