Zimbabwe: Border Timbers Chops 100 Jobs

Harare — Timber processor Border Timbers Limited (BTL) is retrenching scores of employees from its Mutare plants in a bid to cut costs.

Insiders at BTL disclosed that over 100 workers had signed up for the voluntary retrenchment, which the company dangled for them early this year to offset mounting operational costs. The workers, based at two of BTL's Mutare factories, left the company last Friday after getting their severance packages.

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