Exploitive Security Companies anger MPs

The legislators raised their concerns when discussing the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Skills Development budget that was tabled by the Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry, Peggy Serame. She was tabling the budget on behalf of labour minister Mpho Balopi recently in Parliament. They said the majority of private security companies still delay salary payments of their employees, ill-treat workers and refuse to neither give them leave nor pay for the leave days.

 The legislators said the ill-treatment of security company workers has been worsening, especially over the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic because if they are part of the contact tracing and told to isolate for 10 days their employers replace those days with their off and leave days.