Integrated employment management solutions company Quyn provides a range of tailor-made employment management solutions for multiple industries, including the mining sector.

These solutions offer significant value to companies, as they can focus on their core objectives while ensuring that skilled workers are recruited and that their needs are met.

The solutions include the recruitment of permanent, temporary and project-specific staff, payroll bureau and administration services.

Quyn also offers human resources and investor relations consulting, workplace skills planning and black economic empowerment (BEE) scorecard administration verification, as well as skills assessments.

Quyn MD Wayne Alcock explains that the main obstacle the company has encountered when servicing the mining industry is the remote location of some mines.

Other challenges include managing the local politics, labour forums and local mayors in the areas in which jobs are created, while strike actions and labour disputes can also be difficult to navigate.

An advantage of the services Quyn provides is that companies do not have to address or resolve these challenges on their own.

A Level 1 BEE company itself, Quyn adds value by finding the skills required in the local area’s labour pool. The company can also assist in relocating employees to the area.

Contracted employees are supplied with employee benefits that are stipulated by the bargaining councils they belong to, or by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act.

“Quyn also deals with all labour disputes or strike action, enabling the mine to concentrate on its core business,” explains Alcock.

He cites the company’s work with several solar farms, in the Northern Cape, as an example of the value of its services.

Quyn set up an office in the remote areas of the solar farms and recruited staff from neighbouring towns, as close as possible to the site.

The company consulted with the local mayor and other key stakeholders, conducted interviews and medicals and signed employment contracts.

It also provided personal protective equipment, transport, and assisted in opening bank accounts for employees, in addition to supplying training.

Alcock concludes that such services can provide “immense value” for the mining industry because there is no risk to the client, as Quyn manages the entire labour process.