NKANA Member of Parliament Binwell Mpundu has demanded that government should consider compelling mining companies in the country to be paying miners at least US$500 as minimum monthly take home wages.He accused giant mining companies in the country of mistreating their workers by paying them slave wages despite making super profits.Mr Mpundu said this yesterday during the Vice President question time in parliament.He said the disparity between local miners and the so called expatriates is too wide and should be corrected.Mr Mpundu accused mining companies of paying exorbitant wages to expatriates at the expense of Zambians who are doing the actual job of extracting minerals.“The take home pay for just 60 expatriates that the mining companies are paying is enough pay over 7,000 local miners, which makes me sad as Member of Parliament from a mining constituency,” he said.He said over the years, miners have been treated as cheap laborers and that there should be […]
STOP SLAVE WAGES FOR MINERS – NKANA MP
