ROCKLANDS MILL MANAGERS BARRED FROM COMPANY BUS

 PIGG’S PEAK – ‘Not acceptable’ are the words used by Rocklands Mill management to refer to comments allegedly made by some superiors to the effect that labourers had smelly armpits.

The comments are said to have been made while they were inside a bus provided by the company to transport workers to work and back to their compounds.
Rocklands Mill is a mining timber mill established in conjunction with local partners. It mainly produces underground supports for the South African mining industry (small mining timber, turned poles and pencil props).   

It is situated about five kilometres north of Pigg’s Peak town and it is also one of the major employers in the forestry industry.
Outcry

In response to the outcry by labourers that certain supervisors alleged that they had smelly armpits, to the point that they boycotted the transport, Peak Timbers which oversees Rocklands Mill, has ordered that the managers should not use the company’s free transport for now.

It is alleged that some of the managers had opted to sit in the driver’s cabin instead of mingling with the labourers at the back, alleging that they had bad odour.
This is said to have angered the labourers who demanded that the managers should not use the free transport.

When the managers allegedly insisted on using the transport, the labourers boycotted it. Nhlanhla Nxumalo, who is the Peak Timbers Community Liaison Officer, when responding to a questionnaire sent to him, said the managers had been stopped from using the transport in the meantime.

Nxumalo stated that the company had been informed about the incident.
He said in communication with the workers’ union, it was agreed that the managers would not be using the transport for now.

Derogatory

“The issue of derogatory statements allegedly issued to our labourers is not acceptable and we have since stopped the management team from using the transport, pending investigations,” Nxumalo stated. He explained that the managers were using their own transport for now.
However, he further said the company was also expecting an official complaint from the workers so that the matter could be investigated.
As of yesterday, the workers had not lodged an official complaint regarding the incident.

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