Jinan Mining sued for $635 000

NEARLY 300 former Jinan diamond mining firm workers have sued their employer demanding $635 000 terminal benefits after they were laid off during the arbitrary consolidation of all companies operating in Chiadzwa in February last year.

The 267 former workers filed their claim at the High Court in Harare last Thursday, claiming that repeated requests for their outstanding wages and benefits had gone unheeded by the Chinese company.

In summons filed by their lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku, the workers said Jinan had already acknowledged that it owed them the money.

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