{"id":202654,"date":"2025-07-17T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-mediamax-announces-sixth-round-of-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:17:02","slug":"kenyas-mediamax-announces-sixth-round-of-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-mediamax-announces-sixth-round-of-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Mediamax Announces Sixth Round of Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Mediamax Network Ltd., the parent company of K24 TV and People Daily, has announced another round of job cuts, marking its sixth retrenchment in four years<\/li>\n<li> CEO Ken Ngaruiya cited shifting consumer habits, digital disruption, and what he termed &#8220;punitive government regulations&#8221; as reasons for the restructuring<\/li>\n<li> Laid-off staff will receive salaries for days worked, pay in lieu of notice, accrued leave, and severance equal to 15 days per completed year of service, minus any outstanding debts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507170270.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Mediamax Network Ltd., the parent company of K24 TV and People Daily, has announced another round of job cuts, marking its sixth retrenchment in four years CEO Ken Ngaruiya cited shifting consumer habits, digital disruption, and what he termed &#8220;punitive government regulations&#8221; as reasons for the restructuring Laid-off staff will receive salaries for days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":202655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4334,430,6097,21085,51886,257,14717,254],"class_list":["post-202654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-announces","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-layoffs","tag-mediamax","tag-news","tag-sixth","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}