Harmony employs fewer foreign mineworkers
SA operations have about 40,000 of whom 5,000 are foreigners, but their number used to be much higher
28 February 2022 - 09:29
UPDATED 28 February 2022 - 19:32
Harmony Gold is not overly concerned about the department of labour’s new policy of introducing quotas for the number of documented foreign nationals with work visas who can be employed in a major economic sector, CEO Peter Steenkamp says.
The company has not been recruiting foreign workers recently, he says. Harmony’s SA operations employ about 40,000 workers. Of these, 5,000 are foreign nationals, mainly from Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. ..
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