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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Top officials at the Uganda National Roads Authority (Unra) leadership have intervened to stop work-related tension at the three Entebbe Expressway toll stations.<\/p>\n

For close to a week, employees have been protesting poor working conditions, with some taking their frustration to social media, claiming they are being subjected to a 12-hour working period contrary to the eight hours they signed in their contracts.<\/p>\n

Unra executive director Allen Kagina on Sunday called for a crisis meeting with top supervisors.<\/p>\n

On the same day, Unra tweeted: \u201cSunday Office: UNRA_ED has convened a site meeting with @Egis, the contractor on Kampala\u2014Entebbe Expressway following unprecedented crisis reports from the public and staff working on the toll road. This is intended to offer immediate action to the concerns raised.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unra spokesperson Allan Ssempebwa yesterday told Daily Monitor that the meeting addressed concerns raised by staff working on the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe contractor was tasked to ensure adequate communication between them [contractor] and their staff so that there are no gaps of misrepresentation and unfairness,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Unra contracted Egis, a French company, to manage and collect toll fees on the highway.<\/p>\n

There are three different workstations (Kajjansi, Mpala and Busega) with 20 to 25 collectors each.<\/p>\n

A toll collector at Mpala Station, who preferred anonymity to speak freely, alleged that they had started working for 12 hours instead of the eight hours stipulated in their contracts.<\/p>\n

But Mr Ssempebwa said: \u201cIt\u2019s not true that the contractors are working for 12 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt was only a nightmare that was being mooted by the contractor and before they could implement it, the staff got to know and complained. The communication was not effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Resolution mechanisms<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr Ssempebwa said the meeting at the weekend resolved to establish a staff council that will ensure immediate resolution of issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that workers will be able to air out their issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But a source, who yesterday attended a meeting organised by the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway human resource team in Busega, alleged that they were being convinced to adjust to the 12-hour schedule.<\/p>\n

Our repeated attempts to get a comment from Egis were futile by press time yesterday. Also, our repeated email messages to the company\u2019s website went unanswered.<\/p>\n

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