The tone has risen at G4S. The agents have launched an indefinite general strike following the poor living and working conditions to which they are victims.
The demonstration follows the employer’s non-compliance with the report establishing a basket bonus for all agents of 39,000 FCFA, or approximately 1,500 FCFA per day per agent. Seven months following the negotiations, Pascal Wakili, boss of the company, backpedaled claiming to be unable to take on this responsibility.
This business manager would have come to offer the agents the modest sum of 10,000 FCFA per month, or a little more than 300 FCFA per day as a basket bonus. A contempt which caused the ire of the workers who decided to fight for better well-being by triggering this revolt movement.
“I don’t know if the treatment that G4S inflicts on the Gabonese is done in Dubai, South Africa or England and many others. A basket bonus of 340 FCFA is unacceptable,” criticized David Pandjo Ngoma, in charge of communications for the college of staff representatives.
For delegate Arcadius Boussougou, “the basket bonus that they signed since November 20 was not paid and the minutes were not respected. This is what we demand to this day and our employer does in slavery. He doesn’t respect anything in a word, and contracts are not followed to the letter.”
These agents also demand from their employer a classification of workers by services rendered over many years. In fact, for several years G4S employees have criticized working in the same position without being promoted or classified according to the texts in force.
“G4S exploits young Gabonese people because they know that work is rare. There are agents for 10 years who have not been ranked. Here in Port-Gentil there are crooked economic operators like G4S, who come to exploit the misery of the Gabonese people,” he denounces.
Among the aforementioned points of demand is also that linked to the non-payment of social security contributions. Deducted from their pay slips, the agents affirm that they are not paid to the CNSS and the CNAMGS. Hence their worry as retirement is fast approaching.
“There is no payment of social contributions to the CNSS or the CNAMGS. Our salaries are cut and public holidays are not paid equally. Too many violations! »balance David Pandjo Ngoma.
Their desire is for the highest authorities in the country to finally take up the G4S case, who for many years have happily followed the provisions of the Labor Code and seen by everyone without being worried. With poverty wages that for some do not reach 200,000 FCFA, these fathers and mothers face all the difficulties in the world to make ends meet.
Jean Jacques Rovaria Djodji
2024-05-06 17:01:32
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