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<div style="left: -99999px;">Dis-Chem faces striking
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Author: Samantha Riddle
Updated: 22 hours ago
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Category: Mzansi news
- Dis-Chem managers allegedly force floor staff to speak only English to
clients
- Humiliating and degrading Mickey Mouse Ears compulsory for disgruntled
staff members
- Employees embark on a National strike, demanding an increase in
minimum wages as well as annual bonuses
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Leading retail giant Dis-Chem has been dealt some crippling blows this
last week. With staff embarking on a strike after numerous claims of
mistreatment by management including not being able to speak indigenous
African languages to clients, being made to wear Mickey Mouse ears and
not even being allowed to check their phones while at work.
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City Press reported that when they put these claims to the chief
executive for the company, Ivan Saltzman, he didn’t seem to know what
they were talking about. He claimed that there was no such language
policy in place and that the ears, a sales gimmick, were not compulsory.
He made no comment on the phone allegations.
A ban on African Languages
City Press further stated that a furious reader had written in to tell
them a cashier, whom he had greeted in isiZulu had responded in English.
The staff member explained to him that a Dis-Chem policy prohibited
floor staff from spe Read more: <a href="https://briefly.co.za/19726-dis-chem-faces-striking-employees-claims-african-language-ban.html#19726">https://briefly.co.za/19726-dis-chem-faces-striking-employees-claims-african-language-ban.html#19726</a><br></div>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>