The Food and Allied Workers’ Union will hold a mass recruitment drive today at 10h00 at the Thsegofatsho Farm School in Witfontein, just outside Ottosdal in the North West province to recruit farm workers in order to assist those that have been unfairly dismissed, retrenched, evicted, assaulted and injured on farms.

It seems that farmers in the area are hell-bent on dismissing and evicting farm workers, claiming they cannot afford the new minimum wage whilst not showing any proof that they are financially unable to.

These farmers and others who want to retrench workers should show their audited financial statements to FAWU or the Dept of Labour should re-audit their books for them as a matter of urgency.

Tribal authorities from small villages, who allow workers to go and work in other provinces on farms should see that these workers get the minimum wage as stated by the laws of South Africa. Currently, these workers are being taken from the North-West province to go and work in other provinces where they end up being abused by farmers. The union also wants to urge workers that they should not documents which they don’t understand as they could end up signing themselves out of employment.

We urge all farm workers who have been injured, evicted, retrenched or abused to call FAWU or the Department of Labour NOW!

via allAfrica.com: South Africa: Fawu Stage Mass Recruitment Drive in Witfontein, North-West.