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Company offers $1,50 salary to workers
03 Apr 2014 at 07:20hrs | Views
A Harare recycling company has angered its contract workers by offering them a basic salary of between $1,50 and $5 per month, which they are to supplement with a commission from selling its products.
Dozens of disgruntled workers staged a demonstration against the Zimbabwe National Recycling Programme, an indigenous company that had contracted them to sell plastic bags to city households for use as bins.
The company has benefited from the Harare City Council's failure to provide bins for household use.
The 78 workers, who congregated at Chembira hall in Glen Norah high density suburb Tuesday to protest the ridiculous salaries, accused the company for going back on its earlier promises to offer them a decent salary.
The plastic bags cost 25 cents each while the worker pocket 20 percent of the proceeds.
However, one of the company's managers, Bethel Kadzimu denied the company had offered to pay the workers the said amounts although she could not immediately reveal the exact salaries.
Dozens of disgruntled workers staged a demonstration against the Zimbabwe National Recycling Programme, an indigenous company that had contracted them to sell plastic bags to city households for use as bins.
The company has benefited from the Harare City Council's failure to provide bins for household use.
The plastic bags cost 25 cents each while the worker pocket 20 percent of the proceeds.
However, one of the company's managers, Bethel Kadzimu denied the company had offered to pay the workers the said amounts although she could not immediately reveal the exact salaries.
Source - New Zim
