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Labour Matters: Pitfalls in handling discipline May 12, 2016 Business Davies Ndumiso SibandaMANY disciplinary authorities cost a lot of employers money due to negligently handling the disciplinary process. It is very common these days to find employers battling with costs related to wrongful dismissal of employees and in most cases these amounts are huge running into …
Labour Matters: The law, workers and retrenchment April 21, 2016 Business Davies Ndumiso SibandaMANY workers are being retrenched in terms of the amended labour legislation and end up losing the little offered by employers due to ignorance of the law. The starting point is to appreciate that our retrenchment legislation favours employers and workers have very …
Labour Matters: How legal is the tripartite negotiating forum? April 7, 2016 Business Davies Ndumiso SibandaFOLLOWING the disastrous crafting of the Labour Amendment Act Number 5 of 2015 which has many implementation challenges, questions are now being asked about the relevance and the legality of the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF). The legal position is that the …
International Labour Organisation condemns Zimbabwe’s Labour Act By Staff Reporter 0 National Report March 24, 2016 Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Prisca Mupfumira By Alois VingaTHE International Labour Organisation(ILO)’s Committee of Experts has condemned sections of Zimbabwe’s Labour Amendment Act of 2015, saying they impeded workers’ freedom and rights.This follows complaints by the …
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Labour Column: Dispute resolution remains chaotic March 17, 2016 Business Davis Ndumiso SibandaTHE unintended consequences of the Labour Amendment Act Number 5 of 2015 has been that the dispute resolution mechanism was left in disarray with some arguing that Labour Court Judges have been reduced to “Labour Officers” as all cases that go outside the workplace …
Labour Column: To dismiss or to retrench? March 10, 2016 Business Davies Ndumiso SibandaTHE Labour Amendment Act had an unintended consequence of giving employers an alternative to dismissal other than using the code of conduct. The provisions of section 93(5) of the Labour Act make it very expensive to terminate employment contracts using the national employment …
Labour Column: Labour court applications a challenge March 3, 2016 Opinion & Analysis Davies Ndumiso SibandaTHE Labour Court has started hearing cases that are referred to it by labour officers and that presents an opportunity for a number of questions to be answered in relation to the provisions of Section 93 of the Labour Act as …
Labour Matters: Can salaries be unilaterally cut? February 25, 2016 Business Davies Ndumiso SibandaWITH the current economic challenges, many organisations have or are planning to reduce employee salaries as a means of containing costs, however, noble as the action may look, it can be costly if legal processes involved are not followed. The reduction of salaries …
Labour matters : Dispute resolution process now paralysed February 18, 2016 Business Davies Ndumiso Sibanda Following the Labour Amendment Act No. 5 of 2015 becoming law, the dispute resolution mechanism can no-longer be completed in most cases and has left cases from the Labour Officers and Designated Agents parked outside the Labour Court. The new provisions …
16,000 Tongaat Hulett workers strike December 1, 2015 Business, Uncategorized Striking Tongaat Hulett workers at Hippo Valley Estate offices last Friday Walter Mswazie recently in ChiredziABOUT 16,000 workers of sugar giant, Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe, have embarked on an indefinite industrial action demanding a salary increment. The workers, mainly from lower grades, staged a sit-in starting Friday morning and …