Workers accuse NRH contracted company of cheating

FRANCISTOWN: An agreement between workers of a company engaged to do cleaning and porter services at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital (NRH) has come to haunt the employees who accuse the company of ill-treating them.

The company, Mercury Capital trading as Clean Time Cleaning Services was contracted by the Ministry of Health (MoH) to offer cleaning and porter services at the hospital in April this year.  The company took over the employees from previous companies that had been performing the same services at the referral hospital.

 Among a litany of accusations levelled against the company by the employees was that they were forced to work 12 hours contrary to the stipulated eight hours in the contract.

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