Courtesy of FORUM NEWS SIERRA LEONE
Workers of PEE CEE & SONS, JOLAKS and MILL GROUP have described the above named companies as the three best companies, as far as workers’ welfare is concern. The three companies’ workers made their commendations while sharing their respective working experiences with journalists during brief working tours of PEE CEE & SONS, MILLA GROUP and JOLAKS, all in the east of Freetown.
Among issues they explained during this medium’s engagement with them, are that their welfare is being regularly addressed by PEE CEE & SONS, MILLA GROUP and JOLAKS. They disclosed that their medical and health concerns, daily allowances and stipends, timely monthly cash and salary payments into their accounts are also addressed in record time.
According to one of the workers, the companies are firmly in sync with government’s visions and aspirations towards offering five hundred thousand jobs in the approaching years.
In a bid to complement the government’s efforts towards creating employment opportunities for trained and untrained young people, PEE CEE & SONS, MILLA GROUP and JOLAKS are now at an advanced stage of actualizing President Julius Maada Bio’s five hundred thousand jobs dream for the betterments of all, which will boost the national economy. These companies, since inception, are on record for offering full time gainful employment opportunities to Sierra Leoneans from all shades of society. PEE CEE & SONS, MILLA and JOLAKS work in full compliance with the country’s investment, trade, commerce, and tax frameworks. As such, year in and out they exhibit and showcase their brands and put more job opportunities at the disposals of young graduates emerging from tertiary institutions.
Speaking during the continuing Second National Youth Employment Fair, hosted at the Bintumani International Conference Centre, Aberdeen, Freetown, one of the lead managers said they were at the fair and exhibition to showcase their brands-JOLAKS, PEE CEE & SONS and MILLA GEOUP, all of which offer jobs and permanent gainful employment opportunities to both skilled and unskilled Sierra Leoneans graduating from tertiary institutions.
Delving further into the specifics of one of the three companies – PEE CEE & SONS stands as the best in diverse areas of management and addressing workers’ welfare. They look not only at monthly take homes, but also at medical, social security, daily, weekly stipends, as well as monthly salaries, as required by law. PEE CEE & SONS also offer logistical and other forms of support, including provisions, rice, among others, to their workers as part of the company’s job motivation scheme.
PEE CEE & SONS offers quality brand of logistics, procurement and import services beyond borders, as a successful business entity. The company serves as a development catalyst for the development and improvement of its workers in the Mano River Union – from Sierra Leone to Guinea, Liberia and in Cote d’Ivoire.
Workers concerns; ranging from health and medical, food, social security, as well as timely payments of staff salaries by cash or through their bank accounts, are delivered in a timely manner.
As for its corporate social responsibilities, the company has always met the needs of communities where it operates, as well as investments across the country in various sectors, such as education, infrastructure, health, social etc. That is why PCS is the people’s brand.
For MILLA GROUP, as a leading plastic manufacturing company in the MRU, apart from the promotions of workers’ welfare, it recently paved and connected Bai Bureh Road to the Kissy By-Pass Road, Kissy, in the East of Freetown, as well as the pavement of Fisher Lane.
The Fisher Lane passage pavement, which forms a significant milestone in the accomplishments of MILLA GROUP’s Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR), has propelled the company’s profile. The unpaved passage has been in the community for the last forty-fifty years. Kissy residents can now walk and drive via either ends and connect the Old and New-Bai Bureh Roads with MILLA’s CSR boost.
MILLA GROUP, apart from providing support for the construction of schools, mosques and churches at Kissy village, the company has also offered and continues to offer dozens if not hundreds of job opportunities to people, irrespective of their social, religious, cultural, political and ethnic affiliations. MILLA GROUP is also on record for always supporting Government’s Free Quality Education since its inception, with scholarship for best performing pupils of the Kissy Municipal Primary School and other learning institutions, coupled with logistical aids for the construction of additional classroom facilities to the learning environment.
Moreover, MILLA GROUP is a household plastic manufacturing company in the MRU, sponsoring plastic waste management and renewals aimed at the mitigation of environmental dangers in communities across the country and even beyond.
Also operating in the Wellington Industrial Estate, East of Freetown, is the JOLAKS Manufacturing Limited – the palm oil refinery company. Another entity that can be hardly ignored when talking about PEE CEE & SONS and MILLA GROUP.
JOLAKS has positioned itself as a giant supplier of cooking oil and soap products to all Economic Community of West African States. JOLAKS houses and operates soap and saponification finishing plants, and the company’s cooking oil and soap products are found in all leading stores across the country for domestic consumptions.
For workers’ experience with the company; they say they are all having it nice with the establishment.
Speaking during one of the Employment, Labour and Social Security Minister’s working visits, the workers disclosed that they are being fairly treated by their bosses, especially in the area of welfare. They praised the company for regularly supplying them with rice, timely payments of allowances and salaries.