Sixteen former MDC-T workers — who include former director-general Toendepi Shonhe — have engaged lawyers to demand compensation for unfair dismissal from the MDC-T led by founding president Morgan Tsvangirai.
The workers who are being represented by National Constitutional Assembly leader and lawyer Lovemore Madhuku claim they were unfairly dismissed after they were barred from accessing their workplaces on allegations of siding with the faction of the party led by Tendai Biti.
In a letter dated May 12 (2014) and addressed to MDC-T acting secretary-general Tapiwa Mashakada, the workers allege they were “dismissed without charge” which was a violation of the country’s employment laws.
Mashakada meanwhile wrote back saying the workers “have not been reporting for duty and we are looking for them. Please kindly furnish us with the evidence that they were unfairly dismissed and by whom.”
Meanwhile political commentator Sanderson Makombe said “its intriguing that Lovemore Madhuku is representing Toendepi Shonhe and other “renewal” linked workers in an unfair dismissal court application against MDC-T led by Tsvangirai. The same Tsvangirai whom Biti and Co say is suspended and Sipepa Nkomo is in charge. Who is the employer here?
