Source: Govt stops Hwange retrenchments…Proposes two-week in, two-week out programme – Sunday News May 22, 2016
Fairness Moyana Hwange Correspondent
THE Government has blocked a move by Hwange Colliery Company to retrench more than 1 000 workers at the company and instead proposed that management cut working hours for workers to two weeks per month. Briefing the new board, management and workers committees on Friday, Mines and Mining Development Deputy Minister Fred Moyo said the company could not afford to retrench given the state of the company hence Cabinet agreed to have a two-week working arrangement.
“Cabinet has agreed that we can’t have 2 000 workers losing their jobs at this moment so the retrenchment will only be focused on the top hierarchy. So I suggest as management you sit down with the workers and introduce two weeks in, two weeks out programme,” said Deputy Minister Moyo.
Around 1 500 workers were set to be retrenched this month as part of the company’s restructuring exercise which was meant to cut the annual wage bill by $15 million.
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