South Africa unit of Lafarge SA to retrench workers
Cement manufacturer
Lafarge SA plans to retrench 13 percent of its workers at its
Lichtenburg plant in South Africa, a union said on Wednesday.
The union,
Solidarity, said it had been served with a notice by the company
indicating its plans to retrench about 80 of its 600 employees by the
end of October.
“Lafarge Cement
maintains that the shrinking of the construction industry owing to the
recession and the rising cost of electricity is the reason for the
planned layoffs,” the union said in a statement.
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