Labour Matters: Who is to blame for lost cases?

Labour Matters: Who is to blame for lost cases?     Davies Ndumiso Sibanda Many organisations that lose disciplinary cases before outside labour tribunals wrongly put blame on human capital practitioners yet decisions to dismiss an employee will not have involved them. Many disciplinary procedures do not involve human capital practitioners, they are merely important advisers …

Labour Matters: Not all contractual obligations are written

Labour Matters: Not all contractual obligations are written   Chronicle 2/7/2020  Davies Ndumiso Sibanda WHEN there is a contractual dispute, many employers and workers think that the dispute will be resolved using their contracts of employment and written conditions of service only. An employment contract goes beyond what the parties have written down but the …

Domestic workers’ salaries gazetted

Domestic workers’ salaries gazetted Chronicle 24/6/2020   Ms Maybe Sibanda Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Chronicle Reporter GOVERNMENT has gazetted a new salary scale for domestic workers who include housekeepers, cooks and gardeners with basic pay ranging from $900 to $1 040. Domestic workers have since lobbied for salaries in forex. According to the newly gazetted Labour Employment …

Private sector ready to pay forex salaries – Government hailed over remuneration

Private sector ready to pay forex salaries – Government hailed over remuneration 19/6/2020 The Chronicle Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter INDUSTRY and employers have lauded the Government’s decision to remunerate its workers in foreign currency, saying they were also open to paying theirs in US$ with some players in the private sector already paying salaries in …

Sadc to review protocol on employment and labour

Sadc to review protocol on employment and labour Chronicle 18/6/2020   Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax Kumbirai Nhongo THE Sadc Protocol on Employment and Labour is to be reviewed in the context of changing global dynamics in the labour market. Sadc Ministers responsible for Employment and Labour approved the development of a new protocol at their …