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Smelting company ordered to effect salary increase
11 Dec 2015 at 05:42hrs | Views
Chinese owed ferrochrome Smelting Company Xin Yu has been ordered to pay more than $36000 salary arrears to 130 employees.
The company based in Gweru adamantly refused to effect a salary increase agreed at the National Employment Council for the Ferrochrome
Industry in July 2014 arguing that it is operating at a deficit as a result of fluctuating chrome.
The Worker reported that employees who were represented by National Union of Metal and Allied Industry in Zimbabwe (NUMAIZ) had submitted to the arbitrator that Xin Yu had shut down furnaces for refurbishment in February 2015 laying off 104 employees in the process.
"According to them the laying off of some of the employees had an impact in the reduction of Xin yu wage bill," reported The Worker.
"In his submissions to the arbitrator Kamwembwa a legal practitioner of Tavenhave and Machingauta legal practitioners who represented Xin yu had pleaded with the arbitrator to postpone the decision to compel the salary increment until the economic situation has stabilised and favourable for proper implantation of the collective bargaining agreement."
"Ordering Xin yu to enforce the 8,2 percent increase on wages, will simply mean the company will be driven into a graveyard," lamented Kamwembwa who added that, "The increment will have an effect of $3034 per month for 130 employees."
Sadly for employees, Xin yu had remained arrogant and Shengfang Suan interpreter with the company stated in any affidavit to the labour court,
"I humbly state that if the award were to be implemented, the applicant (Xin Yu) would be left with no option but to shut down as it had no capability to continue."
Meanwhile NUMAIZ has trained young workers on Economic literacy through its educational workshops held in Gweru, Kadoma, Redcliff and Bulawayo recently.
According to Patrick Gambiza who is the vice President of NUMAIZ the educational workshops were successful.
The company based in Gweru adamantly refused to effect a salary increase agreed at the National Employment Council for the Ferrochrome
Industry in July 2014 arguing that it is operating at a deficit as a result of fluctuating chrome.
The Worker reported that employees who were represented by National Union of Metal and Allied Industry in Zimbabwe (NUMAIZ) had submitted to the arbitrator that Xin Yu had shut down furnaces for refurbishment in February 2015 laying off 104 employees in the process.
"According to them the laying off of some of the employees had an impact in the reduction of Xin yu wage bill," reported The Worker.
"Ordering Xin yu to enforce the 8,2 percent increase on wages, will simply mean the company will be driven into a graveyard," lamented Kamwembwa who added that, "The increment will have an effect of $3034 per month for 130 employees."
Sadly for employees, Xin yu had remained arrogant and Shengfang Suan interpreter with the company stated in any affidavit to the labour court,
"I humbly state that if the award were to be implemented, the applicant (Xin Yu) would be left with no option but to shut down as it had no capability to continue."
Meanwhile NUMAIZ has trained young workers on Economic literacy through its educational workshops held in Gweru, Kadoma, Redcliff and Bulawayo recently.
According to Patrick Gambiza who is the vice President of NUMAIZ the educational workshops were successful.
Source - The Worker
