Employers in dilemma over pay rise

Employers in dilemma over pay rise     The Herald 16/11/2018 Business Reporter AS pressure begins mounting on companies to raise salaries and wages following erosion of buying power due a recent spike in prices, employers have warned they cannot absorb any further increase in production costs without passing them on to the consumers. The …

Workers committee are a value addition tool

Workers committee are a value addition tool     The Chronicle 15/11/2018 Davies Ndumiso Sibanda on Labour Matters MANY employers spend a lot of time fighting members of the Workers Committee instead of working together for the good of the organisation because they do not understand the role of the Workers Committee. I have always …

Settling land compensation issue vital for Zim’s economy

Settling land compensation issue vital for Zim’s economy – NewsDay Zimbabwe   13/11/2018 IN his inaugural address, the new President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, confirmed that land reform was both historically necessary and irreversible.He also made a commitment to compensate farmers who were forced off their land during the fast track land reform programme of …

Goods that have been delisted from import licence requirement

Goods that have been delisted from import licence requirement     The Chronicle 8/11/2018 Following the gazetting of Statutory Instrument (SI) 237A of 2018, a number of goods which were formerly controlled by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Enterprise Development were removed from the goods requiring import licences. Statutory Instrument 237A amended Statutory Instrument …

Workers call for TNF over eroded salaries

Workers call for TNF over eroded salaries     The Chronicle 6/11/2018 Innocent Ruwende, Harare Bureau WORKERS’ unions have called for the resumption of Tripartite Negotiating Forum to address the eroded workers’ salaries following a pricing discord which has left many workers exposed to poverty. Spokesperson for six affiliates of the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade …

Govt suspends duty on live birds, feed importers

Govt suspends duty on live birds, feed importers     The Herald 3/11/2018 Elita Chikwati Senior Agriculture Reporter Government has suspended duty on live birds and specialised bird feed imported by approved importers. Southsea Investments Private Limited, trading as Birds at Thirty, was granted permission to import 9 000 kilogrammes of specialised bird feed per …