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Mphoko fires 100
02 Aug 2015 at 04:58hrs | Views
VICE-PRESIDENT Phelekezela Mphoko has joined the bandwagon of businesspeople taking advantage of a recent Supreme Court order that gives employers the greenlight to terminate contracts and has dismissed about 100 workers at his Choppies supermarkets.
In a letter dated June 30 to a reported 90 workers from Choppies security department the vice-president's company said it was terminating their contracts in terms of Section 24 (5) (a) "of the commercial sectors Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) incorporating Statutory Instrument 45 of 1993 and all its amendments".
"Please note that you are given three months' salary in lieu of notice not given to terminate your services with Choppies Zimbabwe, and the effective date of termination is 30 June 2015. The contract which was entered by you and Choppies Zimbabwe in accordance with provision of Section 24 of CBA of the Commercial sector of Zimbabwe," said the letter.
Mphoko's company cites case laws including Rhodesian cases.
"The termination is made in accordance with section 24 of NECCSZ (National Employment Council for the Commercial Sector Zimbabwe) and this held to be test in the case of Art Corporation Limited vs Moyana 1989 (1) Zlr 304 (s), Blackley vs City of Harare 1978 Rlr (Rhodesian Law Reports) 403," the letter added.
Choppies said it would pay all statutory terminal benefits that included three months cash in lieu of notice and all outstanding accrued annual leave days and overtime as agreed or specified in terms of Section 12 of the Act.
In a letter dated June 30 to a reported 90 workers from Choppies security department the vice-president's company said it was terminating their contracts in terms of Section 24 (5) (a) "of the commercial sectors Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) incorporating Statutory Instrument 45 of 1993 and all its amendments".
"Please note that you are given three months' salary in lieu of notice not given to terminate your services with Choppies Zimbabwe, and the effective date of termination is 30 June 2015. The contract which was entered by you and Choppies Zimbabwe in accordance with provision of Section 24 of CBA of the Commercial sector of Zimbabwe," said the letter.
"The termination is made in accordance with section 24 of NECCSZ (National Employment Council for the Commercial Sector Zimbabwe) and this held to be test in the case of Art Corporation Limited vs Moyana 1989 (1) Zlr 304 (s), Blackley vs City of Harare 1978 Rlr (Rhodesian Law Reports) 403," the letter added.
Choppies said it would pay all statutory terminal benefits that included three months cash in lieu of notice and all outstanding accrued annual leave days and overtime as agreed or specified in terms of Section 12 of the Act.
Source - the standard
