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Portland Cement to fire all employees as losses hit Sh. 8 million daily

Portland Cement Jobs: Capital FM: East African Portland Cement is set to lay off all its employees in a restructuring plan expected to save the company from further losses.

In a memo on Thursday, the firm’s CEO Stephen Nthei says all positions in the company have been declared redundant and will affect both unionisable and non-unionisable workers in the company.

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Nthei says the Nairobi Securities listed company has been making losses of up to Sh. 8 million daily which has impacted negatively on sales and subsequent profitability, hence the move.

Subsequently, all jobs will be reconfigured in terms of job consolidation and enrichment, in line with the restructuring.

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The cash strapped company reported a 30 percent increase in loss to Sh. 1.26 billion for the half year ended December 2018 up from the Sh. 949.2 million loss it posted six months before.

The company attributed the heavy loss to increased output prices, a sluggish market and production challenges, arising from the company’s tight working capital position.

In November 2018, the firm’s then Managing Director and Chairman Simon Ole Nkeri said it required Sh15 billion to affect a turnaround in its fortunes.

This is after the Auditor-General Edward Ouko described the cement manufacturer, once a giant in the industry, as insolvent because it could not pay its debts.

Nkeri told the Senate Committee on Trade and Tourism that the Sh. 15 billion of the capital injection would go towards settling employees’ dues, retire expensive Kenya Commercial Bank loans, repay the long outstanding JICA loan, refurbish its plant and settle suppliers’ dues. Portland Cement Jobs.

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