Setting the labour relations tone is the CEO’s job

Setting the labour relations tone is the CEO’s job Chronicle 6/2/2020   Labour Matters, Davies Numiso Sibanda MANY organisations have labour relations problems which they blame on human resources staff, yet the responsibility for the tone of labour relations in an organisation lies with the chief executive. Not long ago, I met a chief executive …

Labour relations training critical for executives

Labour relations training critical for executives   Chronicle 30/1/2020  MANY senior managers who sit at Works Council and senior management meetings are not trained in human capital management and as a result do not add much value to the management of employment relations. The managers are instead a source of labour relations problems. Labour relations …

When should people retire?

When should people retire?   Chronicle 23/1/2020  Davies Ndumiso Sibanda, Labour Matters Many able-bodied people are retired when they reach “retirement” age to the disadvantage of organisations and are replaced with less qualified people. In Zimbabwe, there is no legal retirement age.  Many people have wrongly concluded that the retirement age is 60 or 65 …

Cash shortfalls and discipline

Cash shortfalls and discipline  Chronicle 16/1/2020   Davies Ndumiso Sibanda, Labour Matters MANY employees who work with cash wrongly think that after the employer has recovered cash shortfall, the matter is closed.  Many organisations particularly supermarkets where there are cashiers, have policies that allow the employer to recover for cash shortfalls and this has resulted in …

Give employees reasonable time to prepare for hearings

Give employees reasonable time to prepare for hearings  Chronicle 9/1/2020   Labour Matters, Davies Ndumiso Sibanda MANY employers, in a hurry to get rid of some employees, take shortcuts and in the process deny employees reasonable time to prepare, a thing that becomes costly for the employer later. Once an employee has been charged with …