Employees of the Kenya Meat Commission in Athi River are on a job go-slow due to pending payments of their salaries alongside other moneys.
The more than 400 workers are demanding that the government pays them 65% of the gratuity remaining after they were paid 35% of the same in December last year.
The workers, who report to work but do nothing since Monday this week, claim the commission's management had promised to effect the payments in first quarter of this year, which is in March.
Through their spokesman, James Kimeu, they said they opted for the job go-slow since they had not received any communication from the company's management given that time was running out and they had not received the payments.
"We have decided to go on job go-slow because we haven't received any communication from the commission's management despite the fact that we have not been paid pending gratuity," said Kimeu.
The workers, who addressed the press at the company's compound on Saturday, said their fears were that most of them would be laid off by the government before receiving the payments.
They said they should have all their pending allowances cleared before being laid off to avoid getting inconvenienced, arguing that some of them had their children home due to lack of school fee.
Kimeu said the government should consider the workers who are yet to be laid off by giving them golden hand shake as sign of appreciation to enable them re-organise their lives after serving the company for several years.
According to the commission's management, the government intends to reduce numbers of its workers by laying off some staff and constructing a modern company with new state of the art equipment and machines to improve production for maximum profits and end its perennial debt challenges.