Dismissed civil servants received notice shorter than even domestic-servant rules require

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence for the abusive conduct that pushed the civil servants’ petition and escalated the constitutional crisis dividing Somalia’s first republic.