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By Auxilia Katongomara The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries yesterday said employers have “no capacity” to pay packages to some 25,000 workers they dismissed on three months notice in terms of the July 17 Supreme Court ruling. Clause 5 of the Labour Amendment Bill that President Robert Mugabe signed into law on Wednesday says employers who […]
By Dumisani Ndlela HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Labour Amendment Bill (LAB), (signed into law by President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday), could become the most disputed law after the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) said it was preparing to challenge it in court. Its set to become the first law to attract multiple court challenges immediately […]
By Alex T. Magaisa I understand the plight of workers, but I disagree with retrospective legislation. It is a path beset with danger and booby-traps. In this piece, I explain my views on the Labour Amendment Bill No. 7 of 2015 currently going through the legislative process in the Zimbabwean Parliament. The Bill has divided […]
By Andrew Kunambura Workers might not be the biggest winners in the labour law amendment as earlier thought, with Senate — the upper House of Parliament — widely tipped to pass the Labour Amendment Bill (LAB) without any of the proposed amendments that would significantly cushion workers from unfair dismissal. Senate was set to deliberate […]
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s lower house of parliament has approved a bill making it harder to fire workers, after thousands were sacked following a controversial Supreme Court ruling in July. The state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday the bill passed late on Tuesday in the House of Assembly and now awaits a rubber-stamp from the Senate. […]
A ruling by Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court has led to more than 20000 workers losing their jobs, according to worker’s unions. In his inaugural blog for Waza, Blessing Ivan Vava interrogates the hypocrisy of the government’s reaction. A friend of mine in Zimbabwe recently lost his job with a local company. He had been employed by […]
Zimbabwe has lost 20,000 jobs in the last month after a court ruled that companies can fire workers by giving them three months’ notice, the main labour union said on Sunday, as the government moved to amend the labour law to stop further losses. Businesses in the southern African country, which has a jobless rate […]
Thousands of workers dismissed on three-month notices will be entitled to compensation for termination of their contracts, if the Labour Amendment Bill gazetted last Friday becomes law. Legal experts also say the proposed new law could get them back their jobs as they say the 17 July 2015 Supreme Court ruling that triggered the spate […]