PEOPLE

Being a provider of outsourced mining services in the mining industry, the number of JIC Mining Services' (JIC's) employees continuously varies according to its contracts. At present JIC has approximately 7200 employees, of which some are foreign citizens from Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho and Botswana.

JIC distinguishes between Category A employees (skilled labourers) and Category B employees (semi-skilled labourers).

Taking Women in Mining into cognisance, JIC already employs 91 female employees in operational occupations.

JIC offers the following opportunities for the people development of its employees:

• Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET)
• Competency A and B Training
• Blasting Certificate Training
• Women in Mining
• Training in various computer software packages
• Brain and personality profiling to management teams at the various sites
• Continued professional development programmes that are function specific through external service providers