Kilifi South MP Ken Chonga. info.mzalendo.com
An MP has cautioned factory owners against underpaying workers.
Ken Chonga (Kilifi South) said factory owners in Kilifi County and in extension Coast region underpay workers contrary to International Laboour laws.
He said from next week he will launch surprise visits to individual factories to establish how industrialists treat their employees.
"We will take one whole week visiting individual factories and talking to workers to find out how they are treated," Chongu said on Monday.
"Law are clear on how workers should be remunerated. We will not seat back and watch our people exploited."
The lawmaker spoke after a group of workers late December 2017 complained of being underpaid by their employers who runs a chain of small firms in Kilifi.
The workers said the conditions under which they work are not healthy calling for the intervention of the area leadership to solve the problems they face while at work.