AN employee at a Chinese-owned firm that manufactures furniture, Planas Trading, has accused management of ill-treating workers and forcing them to clean up human excreta without protective clothing.
BY STAFF REPORTER
Nomutsa Molai, who has since been fired from the company, said she was forced to clean up the company directors’ toilets, including removing used toilet paper.
She was sacked after refusing to clean the director’s bedroom and remove used toilet paper which contained human excreta, she said. Molai has since approached the trade union challenging her dismissal which she said was a violation of her rights.
A letter written by the employment council representing the Commercial Workers’ Union indicates that Planas had illegally terminated Molai’s contract after she had refused to do the “dirty work”.
“In order to solve the matter amicably, you are invited to call at council offices on November 27 at 9am for a meeting with the undersigned (TR Viriri — labour officer),” read part of the letter addressed to the company’s human resources manager, Wellington Mutambanengwe.
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Yesterday, Mutambanengwe confirmed the matter, but refused to discuss since it was now before a labour officer.
“We are dealing with that issue, but as you indicated that we are supposed to appear before a labour officer, I will not say anything more than that. In any case, I am not allowed to comment on such issues to the Press,” he said.
Chinese investors have been accused of mistreating local workers taking advantage of the high unemployment in the country and most of them have not been brought before the courts for their misdeeds.