Employee social protection under threat . . . NSSA contribution base shrinks

Employee social protection under threat . . . NSSA contribution base shrinks Chronicle 17/9/2020   NSSA building Prosper Ndlovu, Business Editor THE National Social Security Authority (NSSA) says its contribution base for pension benefits and accident compensation scheme is shrinking amid growing informalisation, which is being compounded by labour migration and replacement of human skill …

Labour Matters: Online discipline handling — a new normal

Labour Matters: Online discipline handling — a new normal  Chronicle 17/8/2020   Employers and workers have no choice but to embrace online discipline handling as long as Covid-19 continues to claim lives Davies Ndumiso Sibanda LAST year when I wrote about Online Dispute Resolution it seemed way off. However, today a number of disciplinary hearings …

Labour Matters: Are you adding value in your workplace?

Labour Matters: Are you adding value in your workplace? Chronicle 6/8/2020   Davies Ndumiso Sibanda MANY managerial employees do not make it to the top, get side-lined, demoted, retrenched, dismissed or moved to some obscure positions due to their failure to add visible value to the business. John was one year old at company X …

Collective Bargaining Agreement: Agricultural Industry 1 May 2020

Statutory Instrument 175 of 2020. General Agriculture Wage Statutory Instrument 176 of 2020. Agro Sector Wages Statutory Instrument 177 of 2020. Sugarcane Sector Wages Statutory Instrument 178 of 2020. Tea and Coffee Sector Wages Statutory Intrument 179 of 2020. Kapenta Sector Wages Statutory Instrument 180 of 2020. Timber Sector Wages Statutory Instrument 183 of 2020. …

Collective Bargaining Agreement: Agricultural Industry 1 February 2020

Statutory Instrument 168 of 2020. General Agriculture Statutory Instrument 169 of 2020 Wages Kapenta Sector Statutory Instrument 170 of 2020. Wages Tea and Coffee Sector Statutory Instrument 171 of 2020. Wages Horticulture Sector Statutory Instrument 172 of 2020. Wages Agro Sector Statutory Instrument 173 of 2020. Wages Timber Sector

Labour Matters: Workers management under Covid-19

Labour Matters: Workers management under Covid-19  Chronicle 30/7/2020   Davies Ndumiso Sibanda ONE of the most difficult things to manage among workers during Covid-19 is their private lives and the way they generally conduct themselves at personal level during and after hours. For businesses to survive there is a need to invest in training employees …

Workplace abuse, violence kills productivity

Labour Matters: Workplace abuse, violence kills productivity    Chronicle 23/7/2020 Davies Ndumiso Sibanda IN many workplaces employees are abused or subjected to workplace violence, which is not good for the business, the employer and the employees. There are cases where some chief executives, heads of department and supervisors are “terrorists” in the workplace as they …