Road Motor Services fails to pay workers

Business Reporter
ROAD Motor Services (RMS) has failed to pay its workers for the past eight months.
Workers who spoke to Chronicle on condition of anonymity said the company has not been paying them for the last eight months.
“We have not received our salaries for the past eight months but they expect us to come to work everyday,” said one worker.
Another worker said he had a family to take care of but was failing to fulfil his duties because the company has been depriving him of his salary.

“We have families and we have to pay rentals.
“How do we do that when we are not getting our salaries?” another worker said.
He said if the company was facing financial problems, it had to affect everyone not the general workers only.

Another worker said as workers they were not happy with what was happening.
“We are not happy at all, instead of them telling us what is happening they just ignore the matter as if it is nothing,” he said.
The human resources officer, Ms Tsitsi Machaka, would neither deny nor confirm the matter.

“I cannot comment on that because I do not have anything to say to you, I think you should call the finance manager maybe you will get something,” she said.

Efforts to get comment from the finance manager were fruitless as his phone was unreachable.
RMS is a unit of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) which has also has been failing to pay its workers, citing liquidity challenges and antiquated machinery which has resulted in depressed operations.