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Govt give KCM a road block
11/03/2013
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MINES Minister Christopher Yaluma has told Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) not to go ahead with the retrenchment exercise of 1, 529 employees.
Yet the people of Chingola think that this is just a lip service to the people of Chingola especially after complacent Labour Minister Fackson Shamenda’s directive to KCM not to deduct backdated Pay As You Earn (PAYE) from the employees was ignored.
Mr Yaluma told ZNBC news that Government won’t allow KCM to reduce labour not until it has fully engaged Government which is an interested party via ZCCM-IH.
KCM has announced that it will reduce labour in an effort to go automated and mechanized.
But MMD Copperbelt Youth Secretary Derricky Chilundika feel Government is simply offering a lip service to the people of Chingola without any merited action against KCM.
Mr Chilundika said KCM defied Government order not to deduct backdated PAYE from the workers and no punitive measures have been taken against KCM.
He said KCM went ahead and deducted and the following day the mining firm rushed back to Government to give them riot police for possible protest.
He said no Government Minister has come to Chingola since KCM started making souring headlines about downsizing of its workforce.
Mr Chilundika said all of them were issuing statement from Lusaka at their comfort zone rather than knowing the situation obtaining on the ground.