Dismissed employees demand medical exams

EFSS is a company engaged by Botswana Power Corporations (BPC), at the Morupule B Power Plant.

 “We work in a high risk area where there is high voltage electricity. We work with fibreglass, coal dust, limestone, silica dust and all sorts of chemicals, and at heights, yet we don’t receive risk allowance. Since the management claims that our contracts have elapsed, we demand that we be paid our leave days and be taken for medical checkups to ensure we were not affected health wise by the conditions we worked under,” said one employee who spoke on condition of anonymity.