The team at Fab Foods recently felicitated its Managing Director Hemantha Perera, Executive Director Roshini Madanayake Perera and the Board of Directors for the care extended to their strong team during COVID-19.
Full salaries had been deposited, overtime and allowances credited and even care packs delivered. Throughout the two months The Fab remained firmly shut due to COVID-19 regulations.
Demi Chef L.K. Roshini who counts 24 years at Fab, said, “Getting our salary, overtime, festival advance and even our allowances even though Fab was closed and not making any money was something that no-one other than one’s own family would do.” Account Executive Elilarasi Kanapathipillai adds, “How fortunate we are to work for Fab. No one else would have done this for us, I’m sure.”
And it is this sense of family that has kept Fab, which began as a single entrepreneur’s dream “to give quality food to Colombo” forging ahead to have 24 outlets and a 527 strong team that have unshakable foundations of loyalty for their management. As Restaurant Manager Nilimina Jayasinghe says, “We really wanted to give back to the amazing people who we call our bosses. That’s why we were keen to return to work and get back to business.”
It was this directors’ big-heartedness that drove Head of Operations Raymond Samuel to go public about the team’s experiences. “When leaders care enough to worry about their team and look after them despite having no business income that is when we see true leaders.”
HR Manager Janitha Pallegedara who worked with the MD in getting the payments organized sums up, stating, “When big companies were laying off people, cutting salaries or paying the bare minimum, what I saw here was humane leadership and care for others. They treated us like family and in troubled times, took us under their wing and cared for us.”
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