A week after the Troubled retailer Tuskys closed three of its branches in key locations and attempted to sack Nakuru Town branch staff, it has emerged that senior staff and tellers are ‘paying themselves’ to money collected in daily sales.
Citizen Digital reported that Tuskys chief cashiers at Greenspan, Kenyatta Avenue, Matasia, T-Mall, Imara,, Ongata Rongai and Eldoret have resigned while taking with them cash from daily sales.
Eldoret
A cash attendant at one of the retailer’s store in Eldoret resigned while taking with her cash from the supermarket’s till.
“I have just decided to reduce my unpaid salary and paid myself ninety thousand shillings. In case anyone has an issue, kindly deduct this from my salary,” read part of the resignation letter written on November 1 and addressed to the company’s Human Resource office.
Nairobi
These new developments comes as Tuskys managers host a fresh round of fire-fighting meetings with its creditors ahead of a crucial High Court ruling on November 17, 2020.
The retailer is looking to glue the creditors to a proposed turnaround plan which is anchored on the capture of a Ksh.2.1 billion debt facility from an unnamed Mauritius based private fund.
The series of meetings begun on Wednesday with the retailer’s managers meetings its partners in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) category.
The series of meetings is expected to continue from Saturday.
Tuskys will be seeking to switch distressed creditors to its turnaround plan and will hope to slam brakes on two wind up petitions filed at the High Court Commercial division by Syndicate Agencies Limited and Hot Point Appliances Limited.
A court failed to stop the auctioning of goods at the retailers Greenspan Mall. The auction was scheduled for November 4, but it not clear what transpired as there were no activities at that place and Tuskys headquarters have not communicated.
Nakuru
Tuskys Magic staff in Nakuru have staged demos demanding their unpaid salaries after the branch manager Catherine Gitau issued them with letters of termination.
Reports indicate that the employees received their letters of termination with no clear communication on how their unpaid salaries will be issued.
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