Dismissed civil servants got only days of notice, less than domestic servants legally receive.
Evidence
- Finally, with regard to the “letters of cessation of service” served to a number of civil servants, the attention of the Honourable Members of the National Assembly is called on the fact that it has never been in the practice to dismiss top or senior civil servants when a reduction of personnel is to be applied, and also that while such reduction normally affects the lower grades of the Civil Service Scale, favourable conditions are usually reserved to that category of people as far [as] terminal benefits and other connected privileges are concerned. To our great surprise and dismay we have been witnessing to an unusual practice which has seen the majority of those dismissed from the service for redundancy being conveyed the “letter of cessation of service” with effect from April 1, 1965 only on Aril 5, 1965, while it [is] universally known that our Labour Code prescribes that even to the “domestic servants” a minimum of eight days notice must be given. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 810