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Business Report writes that more than 200 employees at Lanxess Chrome mine in Rustenburg have staged an underground sit-in to protest against the sexual harassment and victimisation of a female worker.
The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) said on Friday that its members had been underground for days without food and clean water to demand that management should immediately suspend and discipline the alleged perpetrator. The union has also called for the mine’s HR manager to be suspended for failing to provide a conducive and caring work environment for victims of sexual harassment and for colluding with the perpetrator. Numsa spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi said on Friday that the alleged perpetrator had never been suspended and no disciplinary action had been taken against him, despite the incident having been reported in August last year. Hlubi alleged that the mine captain concerned had tried to demand sexual favours from the woman in exchange for a full-time position. The underground sit in began on Wednesday. A Lanxess spokesperson said the company took these developments seriously and went on to indicate: “We have repeatedly made clear the company’s availability to discuss all matters once the workers are back on surface, but that we do not engage with colleagues while they are underground.”
- Read the full original of Dineo Faku’s report on the above story at Business Report
- Read Numsa’s press statement at Polity
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