The radio employees of Standard Group have been directed via emails to return to work without receiving their dues or risk facing more consequences. The staff members are currently on a go-slow.

After the radio team skipped work on Thursday and Friday, the media outlet allegedly lost at least KSh9.7 million, according to a copy of an email written by Standard Group’s HR Officer to all radio employees.

“The immobilization of our business in the past two days has had a collective loss of Kes. 9.7M. Regrettably, the business cannot continue to absorb such revenue losses and must put in place a continuity plan to preserve its
products and earn the revenues that it direly needs,” reads part of the email.

Standard Media threatens to sack radio presenters for boycotting shows over unpaid salaries
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Furthermore, in order to allow the corporation to make a choice, the HR Officer has instructed all radio staff to confirm in writing whether they will be reporting to their workstation(s) tomorrow, Saturday, July 6, 2024, or in accordance with their next work schedule.

This is true even though the radio crew was promised during a meeting on Thursday that at least 30% of their outstanding salary will be paid today and an extra 20% the following week.

As of Friday night, none of the radio employees had received their promised payments. Each of the employees’ pay for the months of July 2023 to August 2023 and February 2024 to June 2024 is due in full.

On Thursday, July 4, 2024, morning programme presenters at Standard Media Group’s affiliate radio stations walked out in solidarity, sparking threats that the company would fire all of them.

At the cafeteria, radio hosts from Radio Maisha, Spice FM, Berur FM, and Vybez Radio gathered to discuss the settlement of their outstanding salaries with management.

On June 28, the presenters delivered on their threat by coming off the air unless the Mombasa Road-based media company paid them their outstanding debts, some of which go back to 2023.

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