An employee earns 50 cents for packing a bale of salt later sold for Sh150

Workers in the salt mining industry are being exploited due to lack of proper laws to guide the sub-sector, a court has said.

The court learnt that while a 250-gramme packet of salt is sold at Sh5, a company has been paying its employees Sh50 cents to pack a bale, which has 30 such packets.