Mia says MCP to end urban poverty by protecting workers from exploitation
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Deputy President who is also presidential running mate in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections, Sidik Mia, said his party will move to deal with urban poverty by protecting workers from exploitation.
Mia was speaking yesterday at Naotcha ground, Chilobwe Township in commercial city of Blantyre. This area is in Blantyre city south whose shadow MP is Moses Kunkuyu.
Citing the first bullet of the party’s manifesto on page seven under ensuring economic growth and development, Mia, a business tycoon himself, said that MCP will “raise the minimum wage from K25 000 to K50 000 and the zero-rated Pay as You Earn (PAYE) tax from K35 000 to K100 000 to ensure working Malawians have a dignified living.”
He said it is appalling to see how Malawians are being exploited in their work places saying no one can survive with money as low as K25 000 the whole month.
Mia, who appealed to the people to vote for Dr Lazarus Chakwera as president and Moses Kunkuyu as their lawmaker, further said that this “madness of using and abusing workers will come to an end once we take over government.”
The vice president designate said that protecting workers from exploitation is what even international conventions demand. For instance, he cited article 23 (3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which stipulates that “everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity…” as another basis in which the MCP government shall base to improve industrial relations in the country.
Reports indicate that Malawian workers are used and abused, given the low wages and/or salaries they receive in Asian shops and industrial sites in Blantyre, Lilongwe and Mzuzu.
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Wakuba uyu. Bad motives. Kutha kwa MCP. kkkkk ndi pp kachali anm kkkkkkkk
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Very unfortunate that this is coming from Mia, he is the very person exploiting Malawians he even failed to buy a coffin for his employee when he died when the guy actually worked over 15 years at his company( cold storage) to be precise be ashamed Sir.
So how is Mia responsible for buying a coffin for a dead employee? Was that part of the contractual agreement? Just because you are working for me, does not mean I buy you a coffin. Please understand that. If the guy worked for 15 years, he ought to afford a coffin. If you think the job of entrepreneurs is buy their dead employees coffins, then you go and open a business and start doing just that.
It is an unwritten social (tradition) contract that corporations help with funeral arrangements for their deceased employees. Period.
Bodza amazunza anthu ogwira ntchito zake za ku ng’ombe kumangowatukwana kukalipa zopanda pake uku akuwabera mitengo yogulira ng’ombe so he can not promote businesses .
This butcherman. Mapangombe. This is a very unfortunate country where ngakhale butcherma atha kulamulila dziko lino. Imagine a typist Joice banda and vice wake who failed MSCE pa phwezi.iwonso analamulila dziko lino Shaaa
Pali Tambala wakuda po Chongi. 20 May kuchedwa kufika.
Guys, this is 2 late telling people when you have been in politics for decades.
We need to change the mindset.
Ku ma estates mchinji,kasungu,sugar plantations bwa! Have you all seen how those people are exploted?
Young and adults!.
We are not in arab countries. Malawi panorama now too many lies
Tabs and Jenala while u say Mia is a liar , can you advise what the current regime has done with all the taxes Malawians have been paying for the past 4& half years???!
The answer will come short if you don’t mention , lack of meds in hospitals, poor road infrastructure, poor and highly charged electric supply, poor education system with our children learning under tree shades sanitation is of the 15th century
Achimwene this then it’s even better not pay tax coz it’s got no benefits
INDE BWANA TIKUFUNA MUCHOTSE MSOKHO UKUWAWA KWAMBIRI OLANDILA 100 ,000 ADZAPITENAYO YONSE BASI MCP BOMA
Malawi job market is full of indians paja Muluzi anawagulisa ma company onse