Quality Plastics U Ltd is a Business owned and operated by Pakistani owners who treat local Ugandans as slaves. They bring over labour from India and Pakistan who rarely have any qualifications. To overcome the Ugandan immigration and work permit regulations they make up their own University degree certificates. Even the General Manager is unqualified and therefore has no legal right of abode in U
ganda. The workers all have a proportion of their wages taken at source to pay into the NSSF. The company never pays the NSSF these funds. The workers all pay into a union. The person operating the union is self employed who copied all the necessary documents from when he was previously employed by an official union. The set up is that this person actually is on Q.P payroll by way of a brown envelope each month, so the union is ineffective. Brown envelopes are given as brides to many people. some of which are/were employees of Century Bottling Compay Ltd Uganda to get orders for preforms. Others include the local Labour Officer and I know of two Court suits instigated by previous employees that are being delayed by the Labour Officer in exchange for the brown envelope. Contract of employments are given but then breached with total disregard to the employment act 2006.. The new large PET factory is built with disregard to planning and building regulations and again the building expectorate were given a brown envelope to stop and examination of the building. As this is built on swamp with porous clay foundations, a floor where the reinforcing rods lay under the concrete and 18 meter walls not interlocked or with strengthening piers are just waiting to fall on employees. AS the Indian/Pakistani management have no experience in the FMCG and the FDA regulations they make up their own. For instance they fit slatted nylon curtains for reducing insect access but then cut this 700 mm short, install it incorrectly and then tie it open for the forklift to have unrestricted access. The PET production are has no washroom facilities and as the nearest toilet is a distance which when raining can't be accessed the employees are forced to urinate out the fire exist doors, a dangerous health hazard when supplying preforms to Coke Cola products. The ISO certification is false and again was obtained by bribery. All efforts to obtain the certification by implementing the correct procedures by the previous British members of management were overridden by the Pakistani Management. The quality of the preforms is poor due to incorrect machine installation causing continual damage to the mould. There is movement of the concrete slab as it was not built to regulations to withstand the dynamic load. They like to state they are the only preform manufacturer in Uganda but there are at least two more experienced suppliers in the area, one at Port Bell and the other in Kampala on the Industrial area. That doesn't include all the mineral water companies that have their own production facilities.
