Labour and Social Security Deputy Minister Simon Kachimba, says government is committed to creating an enabling environment for investors to operate in.
Mr. Kachimba said government will continue to maintain a good rapport with investors to ensure that productivity is enhanced.
He was speaking in Lusaka today when he toured King Quality Meat Products and Chisteel Limited after he received complaints from the two companies’ workers that they were subjected to poor working conditions.
Mr. Kachimba has since called for harmony between workers and their employers.
Speaking earlier, Chisteel Limited Manager Edward Sun said the company was working towards improving the working conditions of their employees.
Mr. Sun said the visit by the Deputy Minister will encourage the company to work even harder in improving the welfare of the workers.
And King Quality Meat Products Managing Director Demetre Vangelatos said the company has not been spared by the global economic crisis.
Mr. Vangelatos said his company would also endeavor to improve the working conditions of the employees.
ZANIS
The problem is you people in government think these investors are doing us a favour. It`s a two way thing. Protect your own!
There’s no harmony betweem Govt and the Civil Service bacause the former is notoriously arrogant, so what sort of advice is this? Sounds o.k but where is the morality? Also which wizard told you that this country shall be developed by so called investors? Today, as parliament opens, Finance Minister is going to be empowered to increase your monies by a statutory instrument, on this score all including the oppostion will be in agreement, a few days ago civil servants went on about 37 days protested through the strike and their cries fell on deaf ears, Zambians need to do something differently now, Rupiah and his fellow clowns have gone too far, it would be stupid to wait for 2011, we must demand his exit by the bible, by the b****et, any which way freedome must come!!
Educate investors the Zambian laws