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Deal #1798 Version #55524
Sierra Leone
Created at
2013-02-15
Last update
2020-06-23
Last full update
2024-04-10
Number of domestic jobs created
Jobs created (domestic)
Yes
Planned number of jobs (domestic)
2 000 jobs
Current domestic number of jobs/employees/ daily/seasonal workers
- [2012] 1444 jobs
- [2010] 200 workers
- [2017, current] 2400 workers
Comment on jobs created (domestic)
Planned 2,000 (originally said 3,000 in Phase I; 4,000 in Phase II). Actual 1,444 people at December 2012, down from 1,669 in August 2012. Permanent jobs were mainly being filled by outsiders, including South African contractors. Wages are below the minimum wage set by the government. Training and skills improvement have been provided for a number of workers. Most of the workers are men. Salaries are paid late. Most of the jobs are temporary. Augustin Palliere & Hubert Cochet conducted a study on the net employment generation of the plantation. They found that the project is likely to result in a deficit of jobs and therefore job destruction. Phase 2 2013-2015, estimated investment: 300 million Euro, estimated labor 4000.