The High Court in Kampala has Monday accepted to hear an application in which 400 former Crane Bank staff are seeking shs 6 billion as compensation DFCU bank after they were ‘discriminatively’ sacked.
The deputy registrar in charge of civil matters
Sarah Langa allowed 10 ex-Crane Bank employees to file a
representative suit on behalf of their colleagues in same situation.
After DFCU tookever operations of defunct Crane Bank this year, it illegally laid off hundreds of workers without a clear explanation.
Some of those unlawfully sacked include managers, tellers and cleaners who argue they were discriminatively laid
off without a sound reason within one month after DFCU took over Crane in January.
They now want DFCU to pay them shs 6 billion in damages for wrongful termination.
The jobless former workers who turned up to court with children say life has been tough since they were unfairly dismissed from their source of livelihood following DFCU’s take-over of Crane Bank, with the bank’s management
then promising staff would not lose their jobs.