Category: Labour Information, Wages & The Law

Statutory Instrument 306 of 2020. Collective Bargaining Agreement: Agricultural Industry (General Agriculture Sector) Statutory Instrument 307 of 2020. Collective Bargaining Agreement: Agricultural Industry (Horticulture Sector) Statutory Instrument 308 of 2020. Collective Bargaining Agreement: Agricultural Industry (Tea and Coffee Sector) Statutory Instrument 309 of 2020. Collective Bargaining Agreement: Agriculture Industry (Sugarcane Sector) Statutory Instrument 310 of …

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Airzim reinstates 300 fired workers  1  December 30, 2020 12:47 PM Source: Airzim reinstates 300 fired workers | Herald (Top Stories) Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter AIR ZIMBABWE has reinstated over 300 workers it fired five years ago after the Supreme Court ruled early this month that the mass dismissals via three months’ termination notices were slipshod …

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Court confirms reversal of notice dismissals  Herald 10/12/2020   Fidelis Munyoro Chief Court Reporter The statutory changes in labour law made in 2015 after a large batch of workers were dismissed on notice override the common law enunciated in the Zuva Supreme Court judgment of that year, and override it retrospectively, and permanent staff fired …

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Labour matters: Personal cell phones at work Chronicle 26/11/2020   Many workers take advantage of the fact that the employer looks aside when they are on WhatsApp handling private business and assume there is nothing wrong with such conduct. Davies Ndumiso Sibanda MANY workers work with their cell phones by their side and from time …

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Employee dismissal must be driven by reason  Chronicle 19/11/2020   Davies Ndumiso Sibanda WHEN many disciplinary cases are started, employers will not have applied their minds fully to the implication of what they will be doing only to realise the real implications when the legal costs far outweigh the benefits. The starting point is for …

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Discipline and misconduct outside working hours Chronicle 29/10/2020   Davies Ndumiso Sibanda MANY workers wrongly think that they can safely engage in misconduct after working hours. Misconduct at events and facilities organised by the employer is common and many workers get away with it. In one of my earlier articles, I covered the principle that …

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NEC Tea and Coffee Wage October 2020 NEC Hortuculture Wage October 2020 NEC General Agriculture Wage October 2020

Statutory Instrument of 2014 Proposed Amendments by NEC

“It is hereby notified that the Minister has, in terms of section 2(1) of the Public Holidays and Prohibition of Business Act (Chapter 10:21), declared that the days listed in the Schedule shall be public holidays in 2021,” reads the notice p New Year’s Holiday will be on Friday January 1, 2021, while the National …

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NEC Agriculture Timber wage 1 September 2020