Afroport Mauritania’s workers denounced the reduction in staff because of the repercussions of the pandemic. In a press release; the union representatives claimed that with its decision, the company violated Articles 55, 56 and 57 of the Labour Code.
According to the interested parties, all other companies, national and international, working at the airport, and thus facing the same problems as those mentioned by Afroport Mauritania, continue to support their staff and have not considered collective redundancies.
In a statement, the trade union representatives recalled that the violation of the laws in force by Afroport Mauritania is not a first and recalled the biggest excesses committed by the company since its creation in 2019:
-Forcing female workers to work at night without prior authorization.
-Non-compensation for workers for overtime for 2019.
– Failure to compensate the official holidays
-Forcing some workers to attend 24 hours at a time.
-Lack of attention to health and safety standards inside the airport. The bad quality of both water and food provided to workers caused many diseases for some of them.
-Accreditation of a single doctor who uses his personal home as a clinic and obliges all workers to go and consult him exclusively.
The company’s delegates, affiliated with the General Confederation of Mauritanian Workers (CGTM), declared their total solidarity with all the company’s workers against any illegal or unclear standards.
The company was called to immediately stop reducing workers and start lowering running costs, adopting a 40-hour maintenance system instead of 48 hours. They were also surprised to find that Afroport Mauritania has never been visited by the labor inspectorate since its creation. At the end of their statement, they reminded the authorities that Afroport is a foreign investment that no longer has any value if it does not contribute to job creation’.
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