Deal #1999 Version #56546

The workers are paid badly- with payslips ranging from $1.17 (below minimum wage) -$2.22 per day. The company often pays its workers late. In conjunction, if workers do not reach their daily targets they do not get paid- some at the Lokutu plantation even hire others as porters, or get their families to help them complete their daily tasks. Workers at the plantations complain of housing in severe disrepair, wages just over a dollar a day for intense field labour and a lack of proper medical care in the rural region. Following the publication of the social infrastructure at the plantations the company is assessing and redesigning the social infrastructure. Community leaders state that communities members are only hired as casual laborers and the last time that a community member was a manager was in 1964 (under Unilever). Civil society organisations from the Lokutu area have documented numerous other labour abuses, such as the lack of contracts between the company and most workers, safety issues with pesticides and the violation of mandatory work hours.