Luxury 5-star hotel Villa Rosa Kempinski plans to send the majority of its employees home, underlining the unemployment crisis worsened by the Covid-19 impact.
The high-end hotel becomes the latest employer in the hospitality industry to send its employees home.
In a memo to the staff, the Simba Corporation-owned hotel said the operations of the hotel have been greatly been affected as the coronavirus cases continue to rise in the country.
The hotel managing director, Robert Simone said, the sacked employees will be paid their redundancy dues per the Collective Bargaining Agreement and Employment Act,2007.
The management did not, however, mention the number of employees that were affected by the layoff.
The memo from the management also indicated that the affected employees to contact the hotel’s human resource department
“We are confident that the proposed changes will put the hotel on a firm footing and allow us to grow sustainability for the years to come,” Simone said in the letter dated June 9, 2020.
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Last week, the hotel management told Business Daily that 90% of its revenues around the world has been erased as restrictions on travel and hospitality as well as the cessation of movement in and out of key investment destination such as Mombasa and Nairobi has been greatly affected both local and international business travel.
“It is against this backdrop and for sustainability and the long-term success it is anticipated that the restructuring will affect multiple departments and cadres of employees and will, therefore, result in redundancies,” said Mr. Simone.
The news from the hotel comes barely two weeks after Norfolk hotels sacked all its employees citing a reduction in business. The move however triggered a court battle that saw the management to recall the redundancy notice.
