By Derrick Sinjela.
Dangote Cement employees have been awarded salary increments ranging from K1000 Kwacha and 15 percent respectively to all its employees.
The revised perks are effective 1st January 2022.
According to a statement signed by Director Linda Mataka, the development follows weeks of protracted but fruitful negotiations between Dangote’s principal Labour contractors Silondwa Engineering and the Mine Union Workers of Zambia (MUZ) and the Mine Contractors, Factory and Allied Workers Union (MCFAWU).
The statement said the Joint collective bargaining salary increase talks which commmenced in November 2021 and were finally agreed and signed on 28th January 2022 by the parties affected. All 486 contracted unionised employees at the Masaiti plant in Ndola will benefit from the windfall.
Other conditions of service which were not ammended would remain in force as contained in the current contracts of employment the statement said.
Ms Mataka said Dangote Cement took the mutually agreed decision before the full course of the last collective bargaining agreement elapses in line with its listening ear policy.
She also revealed that a substantial revision of the salaries of the 178 non unionised bracket was also effected.
The non unionised workers were awarded a fifteen percent raise whose categories include senior management, middle management, and others.
“This category includes 28 junior employees, 108 senior managers and 42 management staff.
The decision to revise the salaries of this category of employees has been made to help mitigate economic hardship caused by high inflation.
In view of the upward revision for the non-unionised employees, management has since announced the new salary scales in the affected categories”, she stated.
Ms. Mataka said Management was thankful for the timely guidance and counsel by government through the ministry of Labour the during the negotiations.
She said that Dangote Cement adhered and conformed with Zambian Labour laws which were clear and rendered the spirit of mutual respect, fairness and common ground between the investor and the work force for enhanced productivity.