Kgathi�s former employees cry foul over payments
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
The workers complain that they have not been paid when their services were terminated, while others say they received way below what they signed for.
“When we got employed by Blue Security Solutions, we signed an agreement to be paid P5.67 per hour. We were working in different places; Thamaga, Gaborone and Moshupa. The security company was engaged by Choppies retailer. Our problem is that we had worked for eight weeks, but we got P1,600 instead of P2,900 as per our calculations. We understand Choppies terminated the contract with the security company,” the employees representative, Kagiso Tebonyane said.
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