Employees can be disciplined for breach of Covid-19 rules

Employees can be disciplined for breach of Covid-19 rules Chronicle 8/4/2021   Davies Ndumiso Sibanda, Labour Matters WHILE many employees have breached Covid-19 rules and employers have not done anything, such employees run the risk of being disciplined for breach of express and implied Covid-19 rules. The Employment Code of Conduct can be used against …

Agric unions angry over $794 pay rise

Agric unions angry over $794 pay rise By Newsday.Co.Zw – March 19, 2021 BY MTHANDAZO NYONI WORKERS in the agricultural sector have been awarded a 25% pay rise, which will see the lowest-paid employee receiving $3 969 monthly, NewsDay Business has established. Before the adjustment, the least-paid employee was earning $3 175 per month, according to industry data. The …

Youth Day: Monday a public holiday

Youth Day: Monday a public holiday 21 FEB, 2021 – 00:02 0 VIEWS Minister Coventry Sunday Mail Reporter GOVERNMENT has declared tomorrow a public holiday in lieu of today’s National Youth Day that is commemorated to honour the country’s founding leader, the late former president Cde Robert Mugabe. February 21 was proclaimed a holiday in 2017 …

Workers’ committee hat is not protection from discipline

Workers’ committee hat is not protection from discipline Chronicle 18/2/2021   Davis Ndumiso Sibanda, Labour Matters IN a number of recent cases, members of the workers committee have been dismissed for various acts inconsistent with express and implied conditions of their contracts due to their ignorance of the law. When workers are appointed to lead …

Wage negotiations and lockdowns

Wage negotiations and lockdowns Chronicle 28/1/2021   Ndumiso Davis Sibanda, Labour matters Many National Employment Councils (NECs) are in a quandary over how to handle wage negotiations for 2021 given the two successive lockdowns that have negatively impacted on production and other related business activities. The 2020 wage negotiations were affected by the first Covid-19 …