{"id":26868,"date":"2016-07-13T06:53:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T06:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/shagasha-tea-factory-employees-sacked-over\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T12:40:43","slug":"shagasha-tea-factory-employees-sacked-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/shagasha-tea-factory-employees-sacked-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Shagasha tea factory employees sacked over requesting extra time payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{ Workers of Shagasha Tea Company located in Giheke sector of Rusizi district have expressed frustrations over the sacking of employees accusing them of demanding  payments for extra time work. }<\/p>\n<p>The eight out of 21 workers whose extra time payment  request was answered with  sacking have now been out of work for more than six months. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cContracts signed in 2013 indicated that we have to work from 7:00 am to 16:00 pm. The situation was changed later where we worked extra time.They promised us extra working time payments but received nothing. When we complained, they started sacking us,\u201d said Ntawiniga Philemon.<\/p>\n<p>Ntawiniga accuses the company of failing to pay Rwf 2 million arrears accumulated in  two years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c I signed a contract of working 45 hours a week but I worked 11 extra hours  since I would sometimes  start work  from 5:00 am till the end of the day,\u201d Nderabakura Justin.<\/p>\n<p>Mukamukarage Consolee, a widow of an employee of Shagasha Tea Company  who died inside the factory says the death of her husband may have resulted from fatigue yet the company refused to produce documents indicating the cause of her husband\u2019s  death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy husband would return home early in the morning. He once experienced stress and fell down as he arrived  at the gates of the tea factory. He fell in comatose and died around 9:30 am. Since then they\u2019ve never showed me the autopsy documents,\u201d  she said. <\/p>\n<p>The Human Resource manager of Shagasha Tea Company, Rushayigi Innocent declined to give comments saying more explanations should be obtained from district officials in charge of labor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should ask the matter in the local administration since these employees filed cases.  We pay extra time work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Rusizi officer in charge of labor, Murekeyisoni Prisca explained that they brought together stakeholders but the tea factory managers said that the extra time hours are not recorded anywhere which prompted the district to advise employees to file their case to courts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have sent them to courts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13493 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uruganda_rwa_shagasha.jpg\" alt=\"Shagasha Tea Company\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{ Workers of Shagasha Tea Company located in Giheke sector of Rusizi district have expressed frustrations over the sacking of employees accusing them of demanding payments for extra time work. } The eight out of 21 workers whose extra time payment request was answered with sacking have now been out of work for more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26868"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26868"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}