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Mozambique: Overdue wages and compensations in Búzi sugar mill – OTM
2:18 CAT | 02 Sep 2021
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The Mozambican Workers Organization (OTM) on Wednesday requested the intervention of the Minister of Labour, Margarida Talapa, to unblock compensation and wage arrears at Companhia do Búzi, a sugar factory in Búzi in the centre of the country.
“OTM is concerned about the situation in Búzi, and we ask whoever has the right to solve this problem,” said executive secretary of OTM in Sofala province, Bento Gotine, after meeting with the government official.
The sugar company “has been paralysed for several years, mainly due to obsolete equipment”, he said, stressing that the firm is not complying with the clauses for payment of indemnities and wages in arrears to 256 workers.
The agreement was signed this year and provided for compensation in three tranches – in April, July and December, but only the first instalment was paid in full, Gotine said.
Seventy-five of the 256 workers were kept on to maintain some activities, but are without work contracts and haven’t been paid for seven months.
“The 75 workers received termination letters and are now working illegally,” Gotine said.
Read: Mozambique: Açucareira do Búzi to compensate former workers – Notícias
Margarida Talapa said that the problem of the sugar plant was addressed in meetings she held with the provincial governor and the provincial secretary of state, adding the authorities are taking steps to investigate the situation.
Source: Lusa
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