A total of two thousand four hundred and twenty-three former employees of mining companies that, due to financial and technical reasons, suspended their activities in the last ten years, will receive monetary compensation from ENDIAMA, with amounts going up to one million seven hundred thousand kwanzas, starting on Monday, the 30th of October.
The former employees, who are already retired, will receive one million two hundred thousand kwanzas. This concerns the Mining Companies of Lucapa, Luarica, and Yetwene, as well as the diamond projects in Luxinge and Fucauma, located in the municipalities of Lucapa and Cambulo, respectively.
This information was provided on Saturday in Dundo by the coordinator of the Joint Technical Committee for the Compensation and Reintegration Process of Former Employees of Suspended Companies, Felizardo Elias. He emphasized that out of the two thousand four hundred and twenty-three miners, two thousand and twenty-six have already completed the proof of life, with 397 remaining.
Felizardo Elias also mentioned that the process, which began in May of this year and ends in July 2024, results from an agreement signed in 2013 between the ENDIAMA management and the collective of former employees of the mentioned companies.
The coordinator conveyed that former employees who wish to permanently renounce any new contractual relationship with ENDIAMA will receive compensation of one million seven hundred thousand kwanzas. Meanwhile, those who wish to be reemployed in a mining company will receive one million two hundred thousand kwanzas.
Felizardo Elias added that former employees to be reemployed in companies chosen by ENDIAMA will, in addition to the compensation amount, have the right to a subsidy of one hundred twenty thousand kwanzas while they await their reintegration.
According to the coordinator, retired former employees will receive one million two hundred thousand kwanzas. As for those former employees in the retirement process, they will benefit from one million two hundred thousand kwanzas and a monthly subsidy of forty-two thousand eight hundred and twenty-six kwanzas until their definitive transfer to the Social Security.
In addition to compensation and reintegration, the agreement includes entrepreneurial projects of the former employees’ choice and scholarships, which will also benefit their children.
