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Mwonzora risks losing party property over salary arrears
MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora is at risk of having party property attached following a court's decision to grant an application by a former employee seeking enforcement of a ruling for unpaid wages....Published: 21 Jul 2025 at 12:18hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Retrenched workers refuse to go
SUGAR producer starafricacorporation Limited has served retrenchment letters to 75 workers, but the workers have refused to sign arguing that their employer's decision was illegal.The company'...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reverses late Chidyausiku's 'errors'
The new Labour Law approved by President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made it tough for companies to undertake reckless and stage-managed retrenchments which place workers at the losing end as had become th...Published: 09 Aug 2023 at 08:09hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimra employees plot a crippling strike
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has moved to avert a looming strike amid allegations that top management staffers are creaming off lucrative US$ allowances at a time ordinary workers are wallow...Published: 05 Aug 2023 at 19:43hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new labour and patriotic laws are bad for business and rights to protest
Amendments to Zimbabwe's labour and criminal law codification to include what is popularly known as the Patriotic Act have been described as bad for business and workers' rights to protest under Presi...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:18hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa signs Zimbabwe's 'Logan Act' into fully fledged law
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a law that prohibits citizens from criticising the government, defying wide appeals for him to spare the nation of a piece of legislation viewed repressive by o...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 18:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'Salaries must revert to 2018 levels'
WITH the onset of the new year, there has been an increase in the demand by workers to be paid their salaries in hard currency. This has been prompted by the rapid fall in value of the Zimbabwe dollar...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Transfer of health workers starts
Cabinet received an update on the country's response to the Covid-19 outbreak, which was presented by the Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, Honourable OCZ Muchinguri-Kashiri, as chairperso...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reinstated Air Zimbabwe workers sent on forced unpaid leave
REINSTATED Air Zimbabwe workers have now been sent on forced unpaid leave and are demanding that the airline, technically insolvent and under administration, immediately withdraws these orders, which ...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe reinstates 300 fired workers
AIR ZIMBABWE has reinstated over 300 workers it fired five years ago after the Supreme Court ruled early this month that the mass dismissals via three months' termination notices were slipshod and uph...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe loses Supreme Court appeal
THE Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Air Zimbabwe challenging a ruling by the Labour Court ordering it to reinstate over 300 workers whose contracts were unlawfully terminated without notice b...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Justify firing workers: High Court rules
Employers terminating a permanent employee's contract can only do so under one of four circumstances set out in the Labour Amendment Act, the High Court has ruled, rejecting an argument put forward by...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
GMB ex-employees turn on their lawyer
Former Grain Marketing Board (GMB) workers are at loggerheads with the lawyer who represented them after they were sacked on three months' notice in 2015 following the landmark Supreme Court ruling....Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
May Day message: Restating our commitment to the struggles of the working people
The MDC is headed to Buhera to celebrate the life of a veteran Unionist, the face of the struggles of the working people of Zimbabwe. Dr Morgan Tsvangirai, the founding father of the party did battle,...Published: 01 May 2019 at 11:15hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Mnangagwa's govt in wages turnaround
GOVERNMENT has made a u-turn on workers' wages, revealing that it now supports productivity-based pay.In a speech read on her behalf at an Employers' Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz) human re...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 13:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe ordered to reinstate 300 workers within 6o days
THE Labour Court has given Air Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd a 60-day ultimatum to either reinstate or pay damages to 300 workers whose contracts were unlawfully terminated on three months' notice in 2015....Published: 21 Sep 2017 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt sets aside $5m for retrenched workers
Government is creating a database of thousands of workers affected by the 2015 retrenchments, with a view to offer them loans to start income generating projects, Public Service, Labour and Social Wel...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimJustice in Bulawayo to meet unfairly treated workers
The Zimbabwe Network for Social Justice (ZimJustice) will be in Bulawayo this week in an awareness drive to educate and advise unfairly treated workers on the legal avenues available to them.Z...Published: 20 Aug 2017 at 13:54hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Landmark ruling for fired thousands
THOUSANDS of workers who were fired on three months' notice without their consent after the 2015 Zuva Petroleum judgment, are now entitled to reinstatement or payment of damages after the Labour Court...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 10:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Agric show official fired over Zanu-PF slogan
MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene reportedly fired Manicaland Agricultural and Show Society (Mass) general manager, Patricia Ruwo for allegedly failing to chant a Zanu-PF...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court rules against paying the sacked
Workers who lost jobs following a Supreme Court ruling which allowed employers to terminate employment contracts on three months notice will not get anything, the High Court has ruled. Gov...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Educating people on the weaknesses of Zanu-PF
High rate of unemployment in Zimbabwe is becoming very dangerous for the country and if unchecked will be a disaster in waiting for the government.Policies enunciated by the government to curt...Published: 02 Mar 2017 at 12:24hrs | | by Shingirai Run’anga
Good news for Zimbabwe workers
Workers could soon have shorter periods to inform employers of planned strikes, get softer penalties for illegal job actions, and go on maternity leave without restrictions. Labour dispute...Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:09hrs | | by Lincoln Towindo
Sexual abuse rampant in banks
There is rampant sexual harassment of female workers in the banking sector where managers threaten those who decline their advances with expulsions, parliamentarians heard on Monday.Representa...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Retrenched workers might not get exit packages
Thousands of retrenched workers might not get any packages as employers say there is no need for payout because they enjoy other benefits such as pensions and gratuities.Employers claim th...Published: 08 Jun 2016 at 14:48hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
May Day reflections
If you can't help them, don't hurt them.It is a culmination of fundamental errors of omission and commission that the workers day has lost significance in Zimbabwe.The government has failed to...Published: 10 May 2016 at 21:15hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
There's a lot to celebrate on Workers' Day
Whenever the country moves towards a commemoration of a national event such as the Independence Day holiday, it has become the norm for some habitual doomsayers to not only write obituaries about the ...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 15:33hrs | | by Gwinyai Mutongi
Government cash for fired workers
The 10 000-plus employees dismissed on notice in 2015 will soon get business start-up loans from the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Corporation.The loans, The Sunday Mail has establi...Published: 20 Mar 2016 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZITF dragged to court
TWO former employees of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) Company have taken it to the Labour Court over non-payment of compensation for loss of employment.Silinganiso Moyo and Ndum...Published: 28 Jan 2016 at 05:44hrs | | by Business Reporter
Parirenyatwa, Mupfumira sued over PSMAS
Two Government ministers have been sued for ordering the reinstatement of suspended Premier Service Medical Aid Society managing director Mr Henry Mandishona, who is facing various allegations of corr...Published: 28 Oct 2015 at 05:21hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
Roads closed for Parliament opening, rehearsals
Some roads will be closed in Harare today and on Tuesday for rehearsals and the official opening of the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament of Zimbabwe by President Mugabe.Acting Clerk of P...Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to open Parliament's Third Session
President Mugabe is expected to officially open the Third Session of the Eighth Parliament on September 15, 2015 following the end of the Second Session last week. The Second Session of the Ei...Published: 01 Sep 2015 at 06:25hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Employers biggest winners in the Labour amendment Act
EMPLOYERS have been viewed as the biggest winners in the Labour Amendment Draft Act which has been signed into law by President Robert Mugabe.The Act assert workers offloaded should get two we...Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 15:33hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe signs Labour Bill into law
The Labour Amendment Act number 5 of 2015 has come into force following President Robert Mugabe's assent to the bill which sailed through the National Assembly and Senate last week in response to the ...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 21:00hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T to fight the Labour Amendment Act
17 July 2015 marked the beginning of the worst nightmare in history for Zimbabwean workers in the private sector with the handing down of the Supreme Court judgment allowing the termination, by employ...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 13:37hrs | 1 | by Jessie. Majome, MP
Labour bill in parliament
Debate on the much-awaited Labour Amendment Bill, which seeks to repeal common law provisions that have been used by employers to fire workers on three months' notice starts in Parliament today, a...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
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