Company gets 2 weeks to settle layoffs dispute

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The employment court has given an exporter of medicinal plants two weeks to settle a dispute over the sacking of 30 employees with the workers’ representative.

Vitaplant Kenya Ltd, which grows herbs and other medicinal plants for export, issued a redundancy notice to 30 of its 70-member workforce in February, as the firm said it was facing financial difficulties and needed to restructure its operations.

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