Frustrated workers at Bedi Investments Limited are still seeking redemption from oppression by the factory’s rogue Asian owner, Mr. Jaswinder Singh Bedi.
Bedi Investments Group is involved in the manufacturing of a variety of textile intermediary and finished products; from fiber to fashion, in both synthetics and cotton.
In several of our previous publications, this blog has tirelessly highlighted a dark culture of toxicity at the textile manufacturer where delayed salaries, harassment and unfair dismissals are the order of the day.
Ten months since we first received a complaint against the Nakuru-based business enterprise, frustrated labourers are still crying out for justice.
They say that the factory is yet to fully effect the 12 per cent minimum wage increase despite the harsh economic times.
To make matters worse, the meagre salaries are still irregularly paid, despite them following all the necessary procedures to raise their grievances.
As reported before, those who dare to speak out against this blatant prejudice are immediately reprimanded by facing the sack.
No End In Sight: The Plight of Workers At Indian-Owned Bedi Investments Ltd
Mr Jaswinder Singh Bedi always boasts of deep connections and never misses a chance to remind them that there is nowhere they can take him.
Despite numerous complaints against his company, he still enjoys proceeds of huge government tenders which he secured during Uhuru Kenyatta’s disastrous regime.
Last month, hundreds of disgruntled workers attempted to seek an audience with newly elected Nakuru Governor Susan Kihika in the hope that she would intervene and rescue them from this modern-day slavery.
But just like her predecessor Lee Kinyanjui, Ms Kihika seems to be in bed with the Asian tycoon.
She ignored all their visits to the county headquarters for three consecutive weeks.
“Hi Cyprian,
About Bedi Investments Limited, the company has so much slavery sijui what country we belong.
Huyu mtu increament ya 5% ya 2019 alikataa kuongeza hii ya hii mwaka 12% pia amekataa.
Sahii after watu kuitisha hizo, staff anafuta kufuta.
Hata arrears amekatalia.
After following all those procedures still amekaata kubadilika.
He has gone ahead kufuta watu without their payments.
Anasema ako well connected hakuna pahali tungempeleka na ni ukweli juu tulienda kwa governor Kihika 3 weeks consecutive wafanyikazi over 200 but no single day tulipatana na yeye na hadi wa leo hajawai sema kitu,” a source wrote to us on Saturday, December 10, 2022, attaching the documents below.
