Legal counsel for non-profit organisations representing workers employed through labour brokers at Heineken and Distell's SA operations want the companies to commit to eradicating all human rights violations affecting their workforce – not only probe specific allegations of abuse.
They also want competition authorities updated on the issue regularly, and want the possibility of permanent employment investigated for vulnerable workers. who had temporary jobs at their operations in SA. The allegations were submitted to the Competition Tribunal hearings into the proposed R40-billion takeover of Distell by Heineken.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
_Business Just threaten to change labour brokers, they will quickly sort themselves out.