By Adama Makasuba
At least 200 staffs of Banjul Breweries Company Limited who are on the verge of becoming jobless have vowed to take up legal action against the company’s decision regarding a late notification of the company readiness to shutdown.
Banjul Breweries Company Limited on Monday announced perfection to shutting down business in April 2020 due to the fact that the company is operating business with no profit but loses.
In spite the circulated news of about to shut the company, the staff claimed that they were lately informed about the decision “labor law says before laying off somebody at least you should inform him or her one-month notice,” the staffs claimed.
The company’s decision comes almost a year after The Gambia government’s 75% increment on tax, on this issue the company laid off 18 staffs in 2019 but government later reversed the increment after some pressures and negotiations.
But the president of the company’s Workers Association, Alagie Ceesay, told The Voice in an exclusive interview that “at this moment now, we are ready to take anything. At this time, we are organizing ourselves because we don’t know where to end.”
Full of disappointment he continued that “we are organizing ourselves to see what to do because I got the news with shock, (with legal action) is possible they can change their minds- anything is possible,” he said.
According to him the company’s decision to pay them month of April salaries doesn’t matter much to them “but how the news reached us is threatening,” he lamented.
