Some street workers of Zoomlion Ghana Limited have staged a protest to demand their nine months’ salary arrears from the company.
In a post shared on X by EDHUB, a woman leading the aggrieved workers revealed that they are paid GH¢250 as monthly salaries. She expressed her frustrations in Twi, stating, “Two people are dead as I speak, and we buried some last Saturday. We don’t get money to buy medications, we board cars to go to work.
The money they give us is GH¢250 a month. So, when you do the calculations, a day is 8 cedis, it is not up to GH¢10. When we enter October then it means it’s ten months. How do we take care of our children in school? How can we get money to buy medications when we are sick? We cannot work with our strength and die and leave our money behind.”
She further lamented, “The most painful part is that when the person is in service and dies, the company does not even contribute a dime towards the funeral of the person.
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We the leaders force the company to take the arrears of the deceased and give it to his or her kids. Nobody gifts us anything. There is no allowance, nothing. Some of us have worked for 15 to 17 years.
We don’t have pension pay. We don’t have any health insurance. We don’t have any specific hospital for workers to visit when we are sick.” She also added, “What has angered us and brought us here is that those who pay the contractors said that they don’t owe any contractor.
Our leaders also said our agency is in government so the government has to pay them before they pay us. So, they cannot pay us if they have not received any money from the government. The contractor also said they have made payments.”
