Over 500 security guards face job losses as City of Windhoek contract ends

Namibia Protection Services (NPS) has asked justice and labour relations minister Wise Immanuel to intervene as 534 security guards face possible job losses when the company’s contract with the City of Windhoek ends this month.

In a letter to Immanuel dated 31 July, NPS chief executive Fanie Horn says the company received 30 days’ notice that its security services contract with the municipality would end on 31 August.

Horn warns that 534 security guards could be left without jobs when the contract ends.

He says NPS has informed the affected workers and will try to place as many of them as possible in its other operations. “We have also requested the City of Windhoek to consider incorporating the affected guards into the new service provider,” Horn says.

However, the municipality says decisions about the employment of the guards are the responsibility of NPS.