The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a health crisis and disrupted businesses.
The recent redundancy statement by Kenya Airways revealed the truth, which will become a reality for a majority of employers in the coming weeks.
The job, working environment, business and market that employees left to work from home or proceed on unpaid leave will be completely different in many cases to the one they return to in the future.
Big corporations and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will need to plan for this new reality, and even the best-intentioned employers may need to break its promise to keep jobs open. As such it is likely redundancies will, unfortunately, become necessary; if not in the immediate then potentially while employees are on unpaid leave. This raises several legal issues to consider.
Source: Business Daily Africa
