Over 40 Mpelembe Drilling employees’ wives from Mufulira are spending nights in the cold in Luanshya after failing to convince management to pay their husbands’ outstanding seven months’ salary arrears.
Group Spokespeorson, Lydia Kunda, said they were stranded and spending nights at the police station following management’s failure to repatriate them to Mufulira.
Mrs Kunda said that the women had been reduced to beggars as they could not afford decent meals and were failing to send their children to school. She said management at Mpelembe in Luanshya could not attend to them and asked them to go back next week on Monday.
Mrs Kunda said she expected the employers of their husbands to pay them at least some money for food because they were starving.
The women, who have camped at the District Commissioner’s office, have vowed not to go until their demands were met.
ZANIS
People are really suffering. Where is the govt.? If there was a bye election in Mufulira you will see how these crooks will rush to provide food and moneys to the suffering people. It all points to the useless govt that do not care about the plight of its people.
IYO KENAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RBB talinako
Cant a law firm or even womens legal aid clinic take up this case and sue Mpelembe drilling and their directors for breach of contract? ( i am assuming their is a liability to the womens husbands based on unpaid wages- i would not have to assume if the article was well written)Even if it means liquidating the company so as to pay wages then so be it. This is the only language that corporate organisations understand. Women camping and marching etc is a waste of time.
Do real lawyers/law firms exist in Zambia?
This is what 45 years of Independence brings
I should be flying to Zambia, go to luanshya and take advantage with some little dollars in my pockets to lure some beutitifull ones from the group and enjoy .Happy independence
Sean #4, of course real lawyers/law firms exist in Zambia. They have done for a very long time (my father set up his practice in 1974, and he was not the first.) Zambia is not as backward as you think…… The law in Zambia is more regulated and run along the lines of the british system. I visited the US recently and saw posters of lawyers advertising themselves – that is not allowed in Zambia so maybe thats why you missed them. If someone could take on the case pro bono or as a no win no fee (get legal bill paid by defendant if their law suite is successful.)
fck you # 6,pipo are toking sensible things here and u saying smthing immature and stupid to hell wth yo mannerz
# 6 ulibe nzelu
When X was five, the family moved several miles up the Allegheny River to the little town of Sharpsburg. There, at age six, young X started helping his mother tend a small backyard garden behind the family home. At age eight X was canvassing the neighborhood with a basket under each arm selling vegetables from the family garden door to door. By age nine he was growing, grinding, bottling and selling his own brand of horseradish sauce. At ten he was given a ¾-acre (3,000 m²) garden of his own and had graduated to a wheelbarrow to deliver his vegetables. At twelve he was working 3½ acres (14,000 m²) of garden using a horse and cart for his three-times-a-week deliveries to grocery stores in Pittsburgh.
The company continued to grow, and in 1888 X bought out his other two partners and reorganized the company as the … the name it carries to the present day.
…X was incorporated in 1905, and X served as its first president, remaining in the position for the rest of his life. (source: Wikipedia, 2009)
No able-bodied citizen should starve!
Zambia ia dead …. where can u find employers not paying salaries for so long a period of time. How did the employee manage to pay rental and surf, soap.. Final WHY CONTINUE WORKING WITHOUT WAGE? WHERE IS THE TRADE UNION?
chi # 6,ifimano ububi.