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Lafarge To Forcefully Award 5% as salary increament against 432 Million 2015 profit made
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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Posted by Kunda
on May 27, 2015. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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YADAYA
May 27, 2015 at 9:34 pm
SHIT HAPPENS,PRAY HARD AND LET GOD EMPOWER US,IN JESUS NAME,
Pwanya Nini
May 27, 2015 at 9:36 pm
I blame your union which must be very weak.How do u sign a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) of 12% & you get paid 3%? That is fraud/theft by your company & is enough to fire ammunition even strike!Again how did they forcefully award you 5% without signing a CBA by union & mgt? So if you say on payslip its 3% & this time its 5% awarded its better then than the previously 3% , isn’t it?…Anyway that aside my company gave me an increment of 4 % & that resulted into (K4000) increment to my basic.Also typical of tonga managers (Milambo)they are a problem every they manage.Am sure most workers @ Lafarge will be now Tongas .Yikes!
Pwanya Nini
May 27, 2015 at 9:34 pm
I blame your union which must be very weak.How do u sign a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) of 12% & you get paid 3%? That is fraud/theft by your company & is enough to fire ammunition even strike!Again how did they forcefully award you 5% without signing a CBA by union & mgt? So if you say on payslip ist 3% & this time its 5% awarded ist better then than the previously 3% , isn’t it?…Any that aside my company gave me an increment of 4 % & I that result into (K4000) increment to my basic.Also typical of tonga managers (Milambo)they are a problem every they manageAm sure most workers @ Lafarge will be now Tongas .Yikes!
jabi
May 27, 2015 at 9:49 pm
Upnd cadre milambo wants to fruastrate fellow employs,typical of bantustans too selfish!,she should share the company wealth equitably!
Hello Haters
May 28, 2015 at 5:30 am
You two incorrigible PFool cadres ka pwanya and jabi, your obsession for tongas has made even your sight blurred, can’t you see, that name ain’t MALAMBO but MILAMBO which is Congolese or luapulan name mostly, no wonder you have stunted unshaven ballz. So you even went to sleep with so contented with chainama like knowledge. Wake up two dullards.
Mark
May 28, 2015 at 9:35 am
You are ignorant, Thecra Milamba is Tonga, and just to let you know the statement in the article is right, she is very selfish and will say or do anything as long as it benefits her. She is not one you can rely on to help you push your agenda and believe me the last thing on her mind is the welfare of the employees. She was at Nestle Zambia before joining Lafarge and what has been highlighted here is the same behaviour she exhibited at Nestle. She is a “muzungu anikonde type”, and as long as it suits her the rest of the employees can hang.its pipo like her that have allowed foreigners to take advantage of the hardworking zambian employee and all the while we want to blame the government.
Hello Haters
May 28, 2015 at 1:21 pm
Kikikiki uli chisushi sana, and you want us to fight over techra like she is a sweet 16,grow some ballz fool, probably you the laziest bagger at work and she constantly monitors you, that’s why you hate her.
Mark
May 28, 2015 at 1:59 pm
Like I said, you are ignorant! The point is not about Thecra, the point is about pipo like her who cause the perpetuation of situations like what is going on at Lafarge. Believe me when foreigners come and they want to put in place policies/practices that harm the well being of the locals they usually use some of our own by offering them good pays so they can be the ones ‘whipping’ the locals on behalf of foreigner. this has happened even in historical times when the whites came they used local pipo to capture fellow blacks and give them off to the whites for slavery, in certain cases for so little as a bottle of rum or a mirror. Her position as HR manager is to help bring harmony between the company and the employees not to help the company abuse or take advantage of the employees while she on the back end of it is recking in thousands!
kakolwe
May 28, 2015 at 2:26 pm
Ba Mark, sit down before you injure your brain explaining wrong data. It is not the job description of a HR Manager to bring harmony in a workplace. That is for unions. HR Department is there to ensure that lazy asses of your kind follow laid down procedure, work the shift they get paid for and abide by the conditions of service they were employed under! So, the evils you have described are what is obtaining, I believe that is what you signed for! Leave that Tonga babe alone! Her work means you do yours. If it is unfair, sh!t, Raise It with your UNIONS!! Or go to Industrial Relations Court!
Israeli
May 27, 2015 at 10:01 pm
I just do not understand hw these so called employers manage to be at peace when those who make them rich are languishing in abject poverty
Mark
May 28, 2015 at 9:34 am
You are ignorant, Thecra Milamba is Tonga, and just to let you know the statement in the article is right, she is very selfish and will say or do anything as long as it benefits her. She is not one you can rely on to help you push your agenda and believe me the last thing on her mind is the welfare of the employees. She was at Nestle Zambia before joining Lafarge and what has been highlighted here is the same behaviour she exhibited at Nestle. She is a “muzungu anikonde type”, and as long as it suits her the rest of the employees can hang.its pipo like her that have allowed foreigners to take advantage of the hardworking zambian employee and all the while we want to blame the government.
biko
May 27, 2015 at 10:13 pm
This problem is not just with these thieves only most of all companies. Govement should do something as it cant employ everybody in civil service. Thank God am back in Z again. Goodevening Zambia.
New Educated Zambia©
May 27, 2015 at 10:32 pm
5 percent of what? if people are earning peanuts in the first place, 5 percent of nothing is still nothing. PF is a toothless government that doesnt have the heart of the people as priority. Vote UPND bane. we are tired
Pwanya Nini
May 27, 2015 at 11:20 pm
Hey mathafacka HH’s worshiper!Infact HH has not increased any wages for his workers.On voting day for Jan 2015 polls he gave a chicken & a packet of sour milk each then you expect the pervert to care of the Zambian pipo?Hell no unless Satan takes over from God HH will never & never be our presido….Get over it b!tch
jabi
May 28, 2015 at 9:10 am
How would people vote for upnd?when a bantustan Milambo@Larfage mistreats fellow employees!in this regard how will Bantustans look after this Great Nation if they failed to fight for improved conditions of service for our Zambian employees@Larfage!stay away from Zambian politics upnd,continue as kachema’s ukukonka n’gombe pamatako that’s your perfect occupation!
Palo
May 27, 2015 at 10:56 pm
Da rich get richer and da poor get …….. Da 5% wil only intrest the top black mgt. But 4 us getin pinuts it as no impact. Am getin 1900 so hw only hav an incliment of 85kwacha and my boss gets 10pin n wil get k500. Y cnt da jst gev us a fixd amount say incriment of k500 all round so dat my boss fil da impact coz 10pin dats is gross. Its better dan da pacntage shit.
Hello Haters
May 28, 2015 at 5:39 am
@Palo you right, when will these Unions stop negotiation for salary increments using percentage sh*t,which is nothing for a low paid employee, why can’t they take a leaf from ZUFIAW on how they negotiated for finance bank workers.
kayula
May 28, 2015 at 2:37 am
I miss sata
Shi Mwana
May 28, 2015 at 6:27 am
You are better off. We got 4 percent amounting to K100 or less for the majority! I agree with you. The labour ministry and shamenda have been a great disappointment to the workers.
Man
May 28, 2015 at 8:58 am
Stop negotiating in persenages go for block figure across the board.
poly
May 28, 2015 at 9:07 am
Seeking the intervention of Shamenda is a sheer waste of time and other resources. The man is now finished by the K120,000.00 he is supposed to pay Dangote and has become hopelessly useless as a Labour Minister.
kakolwe
May 28, 2015 at 1:58 pm
The answer for you is to go to school, get an education and also become a HRO? I remember you making this same cry 14 months ago. If the conditions are that pathetic, why not leave the rubbish & go try farming, charcoal burning or prostitution? You may as well get a profit! Here is a secret for your lazy ballz: No one ever got rich working for another person!!! You can only do so by applying yourself in your own workplan. Ati share profits equally……. ulicipuba? Even if you licked hakainde’s backside while you herd his ng’ombe, do you think he will give you 250 heifers if 500 were culved under your watch? Awe cacine muli busushi yama!
microscope
May 28, 2015 at 7:50 pm
Ministers,permanent secretaries and district commissioners conniving with the so called c.e.o’s especially from parastatal companies putting the lives of innocent employees in poverty because of unlawful dismissals from employment. innocent people have continued to loose employment while the so called c.e.o’s and top managements have continued stealing and destroying these companies giving bad picture to the government of the day.Please Mr. president work up because people are so far happy with yo governing and would want you to continue in 2016 most employees have no say over their rights and in most cases these are innocent hard working employees.