Castel Malawi Limited has informed its members of staff that it will implement its third phase of retrenchment by March 25 and the information gathered is that the exercise targets 200 employees. The second phase that affected almost every department also targeted 200 employees and sources within Castel say the actual number the company wants […]
Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Kondwani Susuwele Banda, MP has called upon the private sector to partner government in reducing unemployment rate in Malawi. Speaking on the sidelines of a press briefing organised by his ministry to announce results of Primary Teacher Certificate Examination and Malawi Advanced Craft Certificate Examination, the honourable minister stressed […]
Continued escalation of smuggled Chibuku beers from the neighbouring country, Zambia, has forced Chibuku Products Limited – Malawi’s leading producer of the Chibuku Super and other opaque beers – to consider reducing the number of its workforce by 150. The company has since written the Minister of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development, Martha Chanjo, […]
Clifford Kawinga is certainly a rare gem among the youth in Malawi. At only 38 years, Kawinga has already amassed the business acumen many indigenous entrepreneurs have toiled for decades to achieve. The young man is the brains behind Creck Hardware and General Supplies, which is headquartered in Lilongwe, with shops and subsidiary companies in […]
While his friends are busy searching for white collar jobs in town, a 30-year-old man Rodgers Kaunda is busy digging ‘gold’ through his steel furniture shop located at Chigumula township in the commercial city of Blantyre. Rodgers, who holds a Diploma in Procurement which he obtained at Polytechnic Management started running the Steel Furniture shop way […]
The World Bank says the Malawi Government has potential to move towards creating the conditions for the private sector to increase investment if it can better control domestic debt levels to drive growth and job creation. The bank’s Country Manager for Malawi, Greg Toulmin, made the remarks in Lilongwe on Thursday at the dissemination of […]
Government has expressed satisfaction with the ongoing Jobs For Youth (J4Y) incubation at Mhub Business, Innovation and Technology Incubation Centre in Lilongwe. Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Francis Phiso made the sentiments when he visited the centre on Wednesday. Speaking to Nyasa Times, Phiso appreciated the progress while reassuring government’s commitment to fighting unemployment […]
Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Francis Phiso on Tuesday unveiled an incubation centre at SOS Vocational Training Centre to train, develop and support potential entrepreneurs to set up and grow businesses. Speaking during the unveiling ceremony in Lilongwe at SOS Vocational Training Centre, Phiso was optimistic that the incubation centre would benefit the youth […]
Government says it will soon start giving jobs to refugees with exceptional skills and qualifications to help develop the country. Principal Secretary for Homeland Security Sam Madula says the government is considering issuing work permits to expatriate migrants. “We already carried out profiling exercise for the migrants and we discovered that there are 9000 migrants […]
Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Justine Saidi has assured University of Livingstonia (Unilia) graduates of employment opportunities in government. Speaking Saturday on the sidelines of the university’s 13th graduation ceremony that took place at Mzuzu Stadium, Saidi, who was the guest of honour at the ceremony, said government has introduced […]
Talks between government and Castel Malawi Ltd, which is at risk of closure due to continued decline in sales volume, turnover and heavy excise tax rate, have reached a stalemate and it plans to increase number of staff to be retrenched this month end. Meanwhile, the company’s Managing Director, Herve Milhade has since left the […]
Castel Malawi Limited, producers of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, says it is set to cut more jobs in a second phase of retrenchment this month. Director of Human Resources Naomi Nyirenda says in a memo to all members of staff dated September 30 2019 that all affected employees will be laid off by October 25. […]
Government has put on hold the intake of new interns who were supposed to start work on October 1, 2019. No reasons have been given for the holding of the intake amid high speculation that the government wants to revise the list to include more ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadets. Principal secretary for the […]
Castel Malawi Limited, producers of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, which took over from Carlsberg Malawi Brewer just a few years ago and is at risk of closure due to continued decline in sales volume, turnover and heavy excise tax rate, has officially announced that if will lay off about approximately 200 employees on Friday, August 23 […]
TNM plc, one of the country’s integrated information and communications technology and mobile phone network operators, has confirmed that from its 713 employees it will remain with 576 and lay off 137 job. The company said it will continue to deliver outstanding services as the retrenchment is part of the development and functional review exercise following […]
Castel Malawi says it set to retrench 300 workers because of harsh economic climate in the country. Senior brands manager for Castel Malawi Titha Mbilizi said the company has been posting losses in the past 10 years. “We can no longer avoid the retrenchments because of the volatile economic climate. We continue posting the losses,” […]
About 3 500 graduates who were given an opportunity to work in different government ministries and departments say they are disgruntled in the manner the current administration is treating them, Nyasa Times has learnt. The interns – under the K5 billion Youth Internship Programme (YIP) targeting graduates and non-graduates – get K80 000 a month […]
Over 3 500 graduate interns in public service have written President Peter Mutharika to consider employing them permanently before the end of their internship in June. In the letter, the interns say the civil service has a high vacancy rate which affects public service delivery, saying they needed to fill the vacancies to boost the […]