Uproar as Sri Lanka’s Browns plans layoff of 2,000 workers in Kenya farms

Tea plucking machines at Browns East Africa Plantations Plc estate in Kericho County on September 23, 2025.

Photo credit: Vitalis Kimutai | Nation Media Group

Sri Lankan firm, Browns Plc, has kicked up a storm with the planned retrenchment of more than 2,000 employees, a year after setting up base in Kenya.

The Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union and local leaders led by Kericho Governor Erick Mutai said the company was unjustifiably targeting workers, months after taking over the plantations in Kericho, Bomet, and Kiambu from James Finlay Kenya and Ekaterra Plc.

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