Panic grips Hwange Colliery Company as 700 face sacking

Panic has gripped Hwange Colliery Company Limited after the company wrote letters to 700 employees advising them to stop reporting for duty.

The letters were written last Friday to the employees that include heads of departments to the last person on the ground.

However, the employees would still receive their salaries and full benefits until the company finalises their respective packages.

Last week, HCCL managing director Fred Moyo announced that the company had adopted the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) management system that will see more than 300 employees losing their jobs.

Most casualties will come from the estates, medical, purchasing, finance, human resources and information and communication technologies departments. "We recently acquired one of the most advanced mining computer systems in the country. We have reorganised our production system to save cash," said Moyo.

He said the system drastically reduced manual work such that in some instances, more than 10 positions become redundant.

"The company is not retrenching as such. We will redeploy and maybe retrain some of our staff, those who are not trainable or want to leave will be given a package. In terms of figures, I think we are likely going to have about 10 or 15 percent of employees leaving and we employ almost 3 200 employees."

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