StanChart spends Sh500m on Nairobi centre lay-offs

Standard Chartered Bank Kenya CEO Lamin Manjang (left) and board chairperson Anne Mutahi at an AGM. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NMG

Standard Chartered Kenya #ticker:SCBK spent half a billion shillings last year on paying off 100 workers at its Nairobi service centre, whose operations have been moved to India.

The NSE-listed #ticker:NSE bank says in its 2016 annual report that its redundancy charge rose to Sh556.6 million last year, the bulk of which went into the service centre layoffs.

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