Zoomlion Staffs Agitate Over Unpaid Salaries

There was confusion at the premises of the New Juaben South Municipal Assembly Wednesday as over 300 workers of Zoomlion under the Sanitation module of Youth Employment Agency(YEA) from both the New Juaben South and North Municipal Assemblies openly rejected rice package to be distributed to them as Christmas gift.

The workers are, instead, demanding payment of their six months arrears saying the situation has been the same for years now with authorities doing little to ameliorate their sordid plight .

The agitating workers who had been at the premises of the Municipal Assembly Since Morning in anticipation of receiving their arrears were taken aback when they were told that the arrears will be paid later and rather 5kg bags of rice were made available for the workers.

Their protest comes in the wake of a notice by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to beneficiaries of its Sanitation Module to reapply as part of review measures.

According to officials of the Agency, it initiated a nationwide headcount to verify the number of beneficiaries on the module as submitted by Zoomlion Ghana Limited and out of the 45,320 names, 38,884 turned out for the exercise.

The exercise further revealed that, most of the beneficiaries were recruited without recourse to the Youth Employment Agenc

The announcement infuriated the workers who rejected the rice and started protesting, insisting that their arrears are paid.

They angry workers abandoned the rice and trooped to the regional office of Zoomlion by walking some 5km under the scorching sun to press home their demand for payment of their salary arrears.