Employees at Moha Soft Drinks Industry SC complain that their contracts have been unfairly terminated. The company is known for exclusively supplying the internationally famous soft drinks like Pepsi, Mirinda etc to the local market in Ethiopia.
Moha Soft Drinks Industry is owned by the Ethiopian investor Sheikh Muhammad Hussain Ali Al Amudi and recently joined the Medrock Investment Group. The complainants say that their contract termination is the result of new discriminatory structuring of the organization.
The company has been facing management problems. At one time, it seemed that it was going to go bankrupt. Sheikh Al Amoudi, the founder, has remained under house arrest in Saudi Arabia for months.
One of the organizational recovery measures, adopted the company, is the restructuring of the workforce. It terminated contracts of hundreds of employees. About 187 workers from the company branches located in Addis Ababa have been fired recently. 95 of them were reinstated, but 92 were not allowed to return. In May, the workers at the Teklaihemin factory were dismissed without due process reportedly.
The employees says that the company suffered losses due to the previous management, but it is unfair to dismiss the employees without any reason.
Currently, Moha has a total of 8 manufacturing factories in Ethiopia, including three factories in Addis Ababa, and a significant number of workers in these companies have been laid off recently. The Moha Soft Drinks Industry SC did not issue any statement in response to the complaints of workers.
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