Deal #3460

Liberia
Created at
2013-03-25
Last update
2021-09-01
Last full update
2017-05-26

Number of total jobs created

Jobs created (total)
Yes
Comment on jobs created (total)
4,565 direct and indirect employees

Number of domestic jobs created

Jobs created (domestic)
Yes
Current domestic number of jobs/employees/ daily/seasonal workers
  • [2015] 1800 employees 2300 workers
  • [2018, current] 2300 employees
Comment on jobs created (domestic)
Full-time workers are housed in worker camps on the plantation. The company has been accused of use of child labour, poor living conditions. The company operates nine schools on the plantation providing learning for over 6,000 children (workers children). There is a hospital and four health clinics on the plantation with a full-time medical staff. The hospital and clinic provides medical care to full-time workers and dependent families. Jobs are limited and dangerous, and many are temporary or seasonal and characterized by power imbalance vis a vis the contractor heads. T