BUSINESS UPDATE WITH Orange Makerere University is set to cough over 2.5 billion shillings in terminal benefits to the kitchen staff who have filed a suit against the University for terminating their services. Over 237 aggrieved staff are protesting a move to introduce outside catering services, before payment of their terminal benefits. According to the plaintiff, member’s employment contract was breached by the defendant posting them to new departments but under different job descriptions which is contrary to the appointment and in contravention of the employment laws. The workers lament that they are redundant and unable to perform in the new postings, as they lack requisite professional knowledge, skills, and expertise in the new appointments. The Common market for Eastern and Southern Africa has identified 75 km of the Kampala-Jinja highway as one of the six infrastructure projects to be developed by the bloc. The six projects, identified by the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), are meant to be implemented by the year 2020. The projects were selected during a Financing Summit for Africa’s Infrastructure that took place in Dakar, Senegal recently. The Kampala-Jinja highway is expected to cost $74 million (Shs196.1 billion) which is part of the total estimated $8 billion (Shs21.2 trillion) for the six Comesa projects. Shanghai has shut a factory of US food provider OSI Group for selling out-of-date meat to restaurant giants including McDonalds and KFC in the China’s latest food safety scandal. Shanghai television, which reported the original allegations, said that workers at the OSI China plant mixed expired meat with the fresh product and deliberately misled quality inspectors from McDonalds. Other customers included Burger King, Papa Johns Pizza, coffee chain Starbucks and sandwich maker Subway. Shares in Malaysia Airlines closed down 11% in Malaysia following the crash of flight MH17 in Ukraine en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Some Asian stock markets also ended the day lower on fears the crash may intensify political tensions between the West, Ukraine and Russia. This is the second catastrophe to hit the Malaysian airline this year after flight MH370 disappeared in March. Questions are being asked about whether the carrier can now survive. RADIOCITY NEWS: WE BRING THE NEWS CLOSER TO YOU
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:09:50 +0000
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