Former Unra employees go to court over sacking
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In September last year, UNRA executive director Allen Kagina, while addressing journalists in Kampala, announced that all the 890 members of staff had been sacked except her as the executive director in the new restructuring process.
KAMPALA. More than 150 former employees of the Uganda National Roads Authority, who lost their jobs following the restructuring of the agency late last year, have petitioned the High Court seeking compensation.
The former employees have picked six of their colleagues; Lyndon Denis Kiyimba, Esther Alum, Jims Billy Asiimwe, Luciano Webare, Kenneth Muramyenta and Robert Byekwaso, to represent them in prosecution of the case.
High Court deputy registrar Alex Ajiji has fixed next Monday to deliver his ruling on whether to allow the six people to represent the 150 former UNRA workers in the case.
The petitioners say UNRA on December 31 2015, collectively terminated their employment without notice, a move they say was unfair and unlawful.
In September last year, UNRA executive director Allen Kagina, while addressing journalists in Kampala,
UNRA sacks all employees
The Executive Director of Uganda National Road's Authority (UNRA) has laid-off all the authority employees as part of the ongoing comprehensive restructuring program.
that all the 890 members of staff had been sacked except her as the executive director in the new restructuring process. She said this was aimed at streamlining the management of UNRA to fulfill its mandate of developing and maintaining roads in the country. “The Board of Directors in a bid to make UNRA a fit-for-purpose authority has embarked on a comprehensive restructuring of the authority and has with immediate effect resolved to disband the entire staff establishment,” she said.
