Fishy business. The Social Impact of SST.pdf - Act Now!

work starts at 7:30 and ends at 4:15 PM each week day. This applies only to Productionemployees. All other departments start at 8 AM and finish at 5 PM….Each employee isresponsible for their own clocking in and clocking out. Anyone found to clock in or out onbehalf of someone else will be terminated…A mini canteen will be operated in the mess toserve employees who would like to buy something to compliments their meals…Thefollowing are considered serious disciplinary cases. Unauthorised absenteeism, drinking orbeing drunk during working hours, fighting with another employee during working hours,srtealing from the company or another employee, clocking in using someone else’s timecard, and falsifying company documents…The probationary period is three months fromthe date of your employment. During your probation period, you will be eligible for thesame benefits as all other employees….All permanent employees of the company areeligible for Superannuation contribution. Since it is a legal requirement, you will berequired to contribute 5% of your annual gross salary/wage while the company willcontribute another 7% on your behalf. The company is using AON Master Trust as our fundmanager. (Emphasis added).Obvious discrepancies between what may have been planned and what is now the case in thefactory include the shift times and the mess canteen. But more importantly, note the prohibitionon handling someone else’s time card, and compare that with the repeated reports recordedbelow of supervisors and team leaders clocking out for workers, to the latter’s disadvantage. Asregards the Superannuation contribution, it is unknown whether any ex-employees have beenable to avail this after leaving the company. It is also unclear what benefits permanentemployees enjoy that are also available to probationary workers..l. Spin off businessesThere are no spin-off businesses for landowners in SST. There is a hiring preference for Kreerlandowners within two divisions, Butchering and Receiving, which require 24-hour personneland three shifts. Kreer people, living closeby, are preferred for security reasons during nightshift changes. These are mixed crews, so it is necessary that women workers have men toaccompany them home. This does not appear to be guaranteed, although we heard of nodangerous incidents during our research. Kreer Development Corporation, or KDC, has beengiven the contract for hiring within both these divisions, and they pay the wages to theemployees. Women in receiving told us that these workers are actually from variouscommunities in Wewak, not simply Kreer.In discussion with Paul Samore, Karaga clan; Herman Samore, Karaga clan; Jeves Hoibi; JacobElaxo:From day one the loining factory never contacted us to run a spin-off business. Theypromised us a spin-off like housing scheme contract, chicken project and many more, butall these promises were watered down.At a meeting of Saure #2 clan members/councilors, Wewak islands Fisheries Association,Murik Resource Owners, Hawain Resource Owners, Schouten Islands Resource Owners, wewere told that there had been an agreement by Francis Sumanap and Joachim Nianguma withSaure #2 landowners when work on the SST project was initiated at Yawasoro. Both Sumanupand Nianguma assured them that everything would be okay as long as the landowners did theirpart. They were promised big development with many spinoffs by Kevin Conrad and Joachim68