Dear editor,
President Lungu on Labor Day urged investors not to take Zambian workers for granted, but that they must improve workers conditions of service.
Lafarge cement has up to now not paid its unionized workers there salary increment, they have from January only offered 5% increment on unionized workers salaries which comes to K170 for majority of its employees. Other companies which are not doing as good as lafarge in terms of profits are paying far much better.
Lafarge recently announced a K432 million profit made this year, but are only willing to give a 5% increment saying they have no Money for our increment as this profit is for the French people.
Mr Shamenda, why have you turned your blind eye and deaf ears to the long cry of lafarge employees? Why can’t you come and find out for yoself from the employees themselves?
Don’t go to the top office bearers, they will bribe you, they are always protecting their Jobs.
The Ministry of Labor is dead, non functional. Is Shamenda alive or he is busy preparing to become the next Liato? The new MD Mr Emmanuel Regaux has also been misled by a bunch of these selfish inhuman Zambian managers we have..typical traitors.
What they are promised when they exploit us we don’t know we don’t know. This Lafarge MD does not even respect our labor laws, he says he is here to make huge Profits and not to pay us well.
Last year they gave a 12% increment on paper but only paid 3% of the 12% negotiated and signed for. 3% is what appeared on the payslips. The other 9% is unexplained for. The Ministry of labor knows but they are quiet.
Now the managers who are tasked to negotiate with the unions are being caught up in thefts of millions of kwacha, when on table they were busy telling union officials that the company has no money. How come they are stealing millions of kwacha when there is no money?
The new Lafarge HR Director Techra Milambo is very bad, short tempered and unprofessional, the lady doesn’t understand her job well. She is drunk with power, K60,000 salary, K7000 weekend allowance and a 100% education support for her children at any expensive school. She lacks necessary experience in this field of HR.
Why doesn’t our Govnt have laws to punish those not following labour laws, seriously how can we allow salary negotiations to go as far as June and still not concluded? We have a lot of issues that are not right in our conditions of service. We see how Lafarge spends huge amounts of monies on unnecessary things but fails to pay workers well. Is it slavery?
President Lungu should appoint a new Minister
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