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Firms send staff home without salary

The empty grading hall in Naivasha based Maridadi flower farm in Naivasha which has sent home 150 workers as it’s no longer exporting their roses to EU.

Flower farms in Naivasha have started sending home hundreds of workers as effects of Covid-19 bite.

Earlier, the workers were on half-pay as the employers monitored the European market, which has been adversely hit by the pandemic with many of the countries on lockdown

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