The management at G and G Bakery in Kitwe has threatened to close the company if he is not allowed to reduce the workforce.
And Kitwe District Commissioner Elias Kamanga says he is not happy with the type of corporate governance at G and G Bakery.
Mr. Kamanga has appealed to the baking company to reinstate all the nineteen workers who were retrenched last week for allegedly belonging to a union.
But G and G Bakery Managing Director Steven Voyiatzis has told the District commissioner that the company will only reinstate ten of the fired workers and boldly said he will close the firm if he is forced to re-engage all the 19 workers.
G and G Bakery employ two-hundred workers.
According to contract termination letters to the fired workers, the G and G Bakery management says it is reducing the workforce due to its financial problems and the restructuring of the company.
ZNBC
govt off in private business ventures,just set ur goals of making the policy favorable for private enterpreneurs and encourage the locals to be employers not the daily tutemba.
GRZ go local, promote local entrepreneurship as the benefits are more than what the foreigners as to offer. Make conditions favorable for local businessmen.
IS THIS BAKERY OWNED BY SHOPRITE OR IS LT JUST ADVERTISING SHOPRITE TO THE READERS.? SORRY FOR THE WORKERS THAT ARE GOING TO BE RETRENCHED.
ATASE ! BA G&G…WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE? LET THEM CLOSE ITS THERE OWN BUSINESS. MATTER OF FACT THEY HAVE MORE COMPETITION MORE THAN B4…. 41 PIN IS THAT AN INCREAMENT?
If they close, over 200 people will be left without employment and we don’t want this to happen. By the way, G & G is a private owned company and they need to restructure in order to remain competitive. It’s a recipe for failure any time government starts meddling in the private affairs of its citizens.
Hey government, hands off G&G! You’re not doing anything for them to reduce costs by other means.
I dont see the logic in govt involving itself in a private companys internal affairsÂ
G&G must have been aquired ‘corruptly’ like Zamtel and there is only one solution for such under this givernment.
Most of you wont see the corruption her but suffice to say its me who decides whats ‘corrupt’ and whats not….and offcourse its the job of the judge to find the corruption once i have smelt it in anything. As for the erring judges there is Chikopa waiting for them at Pamodzi, thank you.
i can get worried if its chimanga changa which wants to close & not that ka GEORGE and GREGORY (G & G) bakery. luanshya bekary is there for us & here in chililabombwe, no worry we have konkola bakery. it even supplies kampompo kuli bashi mine. what is GGGGGGG?
Am in Washington DC and you have just flooded my mind with memories of childhood.Being children of miners and always getting kampompo (buns supplied for miners) from your fathers when they got back from work.Happy days those were.
He can close AND GO
Hey PF govt keep your hands off G& G. The prescription you’re forcing belongs to socialism and the only inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
tiye tiye!
That is KK’s prescription – job creation by forced bloating! Can’t you guys see these guys are just using UNIP prescriptions?
looks like too few people see that we are going towards zimbabwe
Isala ngolefwaya.who cares.
IT WILL BE YOU LOSING YOU FOOL
That is a voice of someone who really despises us. Just close that useless bakery and we will opt for our very own VITUMBUWA.
hahahaha..mwajama bakolwestans..
one of the reasons why private sector survives easily is that is flexible and easily adapts to changing environment. therefore we should be laughing at the commissioner at his utterances. and #15 the guy is not down sizing because he is a foreigner but because the business has to survive. there are a lot of zambians businesses down sizing. they only organizations that don’t down size are government owned and am sure you have seen the results, NCZ, ZNBC,times printpak, Zesco, Zamtel
Let him fire those workers with cost like K88 million each or retain them
Please close it because you were really my competitor in the business. May be I can enjoy the monopoly.
A capItalist attempts  to blackmail government!
The problem we have as Zambians is that we always want to be employees of someone.Look at old and tired faces in the companies.No one thinks of what to do in future in an event that the company folds.Look at how deplorable the some former DCs are today.It’s like they never worked before. The PF should seriously look at creating enabling business environment rather than condoning indiscipline in companies.
This is really an ignorant government. This is a private facility, how does the district commissioner come in?
The owner of bakery can close and invest his money into houses and chew rentals quietly alone, but what will happen to the 200 workers? You bloggers boggle my minds how you feel people who invest in Zambia are enemies. Why are we calling him names?
Zambians are truly growing in knowledge….i am non-Zambia but born here….but I have heard of the growth of G and G…entrepreneurship….slow and steady ..the capitalism we need all over the world (not the G bush and D cheney and friends ..halliburton etc)….but the amount of balance of nationalistic zambians who dont realise regardless of where a person or investor is not the issue..but if they show.ECONMIC VALUE addition to zambia it benefits all . Even a good BLACK Zambian businessman if he is steady and runs his business prudently like G and G then we should support……we all want Zambia to be rich and Zambians to have dignity, children to study, health ..just like switzerland…or singapore (not like broke USA or greece or Spain)…we need to create ECONOMIC VALUE
The government should lay their hands off G&G but instead revamp Supaloaf and absorb all the fired workers.
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let the dc/govt open their own bakery and compete with GnG tumone instead of trying to drive what is not theirs.