Workers of Crab Tree Electrical Appliances firm from Industrial Area in Maseru are complaining about low salaries they are given by their managers.
In an interview with journalists in Maseru yesterday, they said after a mass strike by workers of clothing factories, who were demanding their salaries to be increased at the beginning of this year, their salaries were not increased and they were told their firm does not fall under clothes manufacturing factories, as it manufactures electrical appliances.
They said they took their complaints to the Directorate of Disputes Prevention and Resolution (DDPR), which they said it does not take them seriously.
In their statement they said they demanded 13% salary increase, and seven days of family responsibility and compassionate leaves, and are given two days.
They further said they are supposed to earn more than workers in the clothing firms but they earn less.
The deputy secretary of Lesotho Workers Union (LEWA), which workers of Crab Tree firm are its members Mr Motlalane Motsopa, said Crab Tree workers have been complaining for a long time, about their firm being classified under factories of a type different from it.
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