Zupco challenges reinstatement of fired unionist

Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) has approached the Supreme Court seeking to challenge the Labour Court's order compelling the parastatal to reinstate or pay damages to fired workers' committee chairman, Onson Mashinga.

The appeal was filed on Wednesday last week under case number SC491/15 and is yet to be set down for hearing.

Mashinga, who was both a depot (Harare) and national workers committee chairman, had his contract of employment terminated in September last year after he was accused of referring workers' salary grievances to lawyers, Wintertons Legal Practitioners.