Two Ugandans sue Chinese employer over claims firm fired them for having HIV
Kampala — When Kato was called into his manager’s office, the Ugandan driver assumed he would be sent on an errand, not be ordered to take an HIV/AIDS test and lose his job when it came back positive. This lead him to sue his Chinese employer for unfair dismissal. Kato is one of two HIV-positive workers who went to court in June to demand compensation from their former employer, China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), in Uganda’s second high-profile HIV/AIDS discrimination case in two years. "[My manager] said: ‘If you don’t go for this test, you’ll be fired’," said Kato, a father of three who declined to give his full name for fear of stigma. "We had to go along with it because we were afraid of losing our jobs," he said, describing how half-a-dozen employees were ferried to a clinic in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, to have their blood tested. Uganda’s high court will hear the case on August 16, in which the two plaintiffs are asking for 400-million Uganda shillings ($110...
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