FORMER ZSIC INSURANCE EMPLOYEES ARE DEMANDING THEIR K34 MILLION RETIREMENT PACKAGES.
THE EMPLOYEES WERE RETRENCHED IN 1991 UP TO NOW THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED THEIR PACKAGES EVEN AFTER THE SUPREME COURT RULED IN THEIR FAVOUR.
RETIREES’ COMMITTEE SECRETARY, RODRICK CHAPA, SAYS ZSIC WAS SUPPOSED TO PAY ABOUT 1100 FORMER EMPLOYEES, HOWEVER NONE OF THEM WAS PAID.
MR CHAPA SAYS FROM THE 1100 FORMER EMPLOYEES ABOUT 300 HAVE DIED AND COULD NOT ACCESS THEIR DUES WHICH THEY WORKED FOR.
MR CHAPA SAYS WHEN THE FORMER EMPLOYEES WON THE CASE AGAINST ZSIC, THE COURT ORDERED THAT THEY BE PAID K34 MILLION, THEIR LAWYER WHO WAS REPRESENTING THEY WENT BEHIND THEIR BACK AND SIGNED A CONSENT AGREEMENT WITH ZSIC SO THAT THEY CAN BE PAID K182, 000, 00 BUT THEY REJECTED THE OFFER BUT INSTEAD THEIR FULL AMOUNT BE PAID.
HE SAYS IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT ZSIC UPTO NOW HAS DISOBEYED THE COURT ORDER AND THE FORMER EMPLOYEES ARE WALLOWING IN POVERTY.
MR CHAPA DISCLOSED THAT IN 2019, THE FORMER EMPLOYEES ENGAGED PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA WHILE IN OPPOSITION AND ASSURED THEM THAT THEIR ISSUE WILL BE RESOLVED ONCE VOTED IN OFFICE.
HE HAS SINCE APPEALED TO PRESIDENT HICHILEMA TO INTERVENE SO THAT THE FORMER EMPLOYEES GET THEIR DUES.
MR CHAPA SAYS THE PRESIDENT’S INTERVENTION WILL GO A LONG WAY IN HELPING THE RETIREES.