Appendix 3.1 Housing Policy and Procedure for Tanzania
Tobacco Processors Ltd.
PROCEDURE NO:
DEPARTMENT
HR – 11 HUMAN RE-
SOURCES
ISSUE NO: 1
HOUSING POLICY AND PROCEDURE.
DATE: 15/12/2006
REVISION NO: PAGES 254
1.0 OBJECTIVE:
To quickly and efficiently provide company employees with accommodation so as to secure
their commitment to their work and ensure that they live in conducive environment.
2.0 POLICY
2.1 The company shall endeavour, as far as possible to provide employees with reasonable
company accommodation at reasonable rent. It cannot, however accept any obligation to pro-
vide housing for all employees
2.2 It shall also maintain a limited number of rented houses in places, where there are no
company houses and where it has failed to provide reasonable accommodation for senior man-
agement staff on the approval of the Managing Director.
2.3 Where the company is not in a position of providing a house to an employee it shall
pay a housing allowance. It shall also provide furniture and appliances to senior management
living in company houses (where necessary).
2.4 Where the company is not in a position to provide a house to a transferred or a new
employee, it shall pay the employee a subsistence allowance until when he/she secures a house
subject to a maximum of 30 days.
3.0 PROCEDURE
3.1 Housing entitlement:
The company has graded the employees into ‘entitled’ and ‘eligible’ reflecting their positions
in the company (for the purpose of house allocation).
