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Chinese firm fails to pay workers
11 Aug 2015 at 08:06hrs | Views
CHINESE chrome mining and smelting company based in Gweru, which shut down early this year, is still to pay workers' salaries and allowances back dated to 2011.
A Xin Yu Mining, closed down on February 14 this year but has failed to clear its salary backlog leaving workers stranded.
Workers said they were struggling to survive as their employer is not communicating on the way forward concerning the payments.
"We are in a quandary as to the way forward because the employer is not forthcoming on the way forward concerning our dues," one worker said.
"We have debts and surviving has been hard for us."
The workers said the company just distributed a notice on February 11 this year saying they were shutting down because of operational costs.
"Management just posted a notice saying the company was closing because of the low price of ferro-chrome on the international market as well as high cost of electricity," another worker said.
Xin Yu Mining was taken to the Labour Court for workplace violations, including underpaying workers in 2010 when the firm started its operations.
ZCTU's central region chairperson Martin Tazvivinga report show that new players in the industry, and Chinese owned companies in Gweru, like Jin An, Xin Yu and Nelson Holdings operate under pathetic working conditions.
"Workers are underpaid and the courts are choked with cases from these Chinese-owned companies," Tazvivinga noted.
A Xin Yu Mining, closed down on February 14 this year but has failed to clear its salary backlog leaving workers stranded.
Workers said they were struggling to survive as their employer is not communicating on the way forward concerning the payments.
"We are in a quandary as to the way forward because the employer is not forthcoming on the way forward concerning our dues," one worker said.
"We have debts and surviving has been hard for us."
The workers said the company just distributed a notice on February 11 this year saying they were shutting down because of operational costs.
"Management just posted a notice saying the company was closing because of the low price of ferro-chrome on the international market as well as high cost of electricity," another worker said.
Xin Yu Mining was taken to the Labour Court for workplace violations, including underpaying workers in 2010 when the firm started its operations.
ZCTU's central region chairperson Martin Tazvivinga report show that new players in the industry, and Chinese owned companies in Gweru, like Jin An, Xin Yu and Nelson Holdings operate under pathetic working conditions.
"Workers are underpaid and the courts are choked with cases from these Chinese-owned companies," Tazvivinga noted.
Source - Byo24News
