This amount is just part of the full payment workers are expected to receive; the company will calculate the number of working days the workers had spent since the introduction of the confinement rules and determine the total payment.
On Saturday 23 May 2020 about 30 Congolese miners working for Chinese mining company Molybdenum, a division of Tenke Fungurume Mining Company based in the southern province of Lualaba, went on strike demanding special benefits for being made to work while the company was under isolation, as a result of to the coronavirus pandemic.
The workers were demanding among other things, a daily cash allowance of USD100 and a compensation amount of USD4000 for each worker.
Both the management and the employees representative then came to an understanding the next day and the first phase of the agreement was concluded, where it was agreed that each worker will be paid USD300 on 25 May 2020.
Other issues that were also agreed upon was that, the company will introduce a rotation system for workers, and improve the living conditions on the transit sites, which was to be made available as part of the rotation process.
The company is also expected to return to the normal 6X3 operations schedule.
Tenke Fungurume Mining is one of the biggest copper and cobalt mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the company has however come under fire for the mistreatment and exploitation of Congolese workers by its predominantly Chinese management structure
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