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CBZ manager fired over missing RTGS3,000

A former Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ) branch manager who was fired over financial irregularities involving RTGS3 000 has lost his appeal at the Labour Court, which upheld his dismissal.Court papers show that Panganai Muza, who once he…

Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 10:11hrs | 430 | by Staff rporter

Girl (13) dies in labour, 'lover', father jailed

A 13-year-old girl from Masvingo Rural, who was a member of the Johane Marange Apostolic sect, has died in childbirth and was buried without the police being notified, in a case that has sparked outrage over child marriages and unsafe birt…

Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 12:14hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter

Delta Corporation faces labour challenges in South Africa

Zimbabwean beverage giant, Delta Corporation, is experiencing contrasting fortunes in its regional markets after it battled labour disruptions in South Africa and recorded brisk business for its lager beer volumes back home, driven by toba…

Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 08:54hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter

Mozambique tops labour migration into Zimbabwe

Mozambique has emerged as the leading source of labour migrants in Zimbabwe, according to the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT)'s latest second-quarter data for 2025. The findings reflect enduring patterns of regional labour mo…

Published: 28 Jul 2025 at 19:00hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter

Court restores demoted teacher's senior position

The Labour Court in Bulawayo has ruled in favour of a senior teacher, Tandiwe Moyo, ordering the government to reverse her transfer and demotion from her position as teacher-in-charge (TIC).Justice Lillian Hove overturned the decision that…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 09:26hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter

44 candidates vie for Labour Court judge positions

A total of 44 candidates shortlisted for interviews to fill eight vacant judicial positions at the Labour Court have successfully completed the first stage of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) selection process.The initial phase, which…

Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 07:43hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter

46 shortlisted for Labour Court Judge positions

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has released the names of 46 candidates who have been shortlisted for consideration as Judges of the Labour Court.In a statement issued on Friday, the JSC confirmed that interviews for the aspiring jud…

Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 12:50hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter

Warren Hills housing development abusing prison labour

The use of prison labour at a private housing development in Warren Hills, reportedly linked to businessman Ken Sharpe's real estate company, West Properties, has ignited a heated public debate. Social media users are questioning the invol…

Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 14:21hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter

Foreign companies must comply with Zimbabwe's labour laws

Zimbabwe must strengthen the enforcement of its labour laws to safeguard local workers employed by foreign businesses, particularly Chinese-owned mining firms, according to Dr. Wayne Malinga, a senior researcher at the Public Policy and Re…

Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 15:40hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter

After all, there's no common wealth in the Commonwealth

When it comes to Zimbabwe, UK's Labour does not work. It was Labour led by Harold Wilson, which duplicitously aided and abetted the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by Ian Smith's Rhodesia Front in 1965. And it was the same Lab…

Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 16:28hrs | 716 | by Jonathan Moyo

Russia seeks labour from Zim to boost human capital

Russia is looking to Zimbabwe to bolster its labor force, particularly in the construction sector, as it experiences rapid growth despite Western sanctions. The call for skilled labor emerged from discussions between Zimbabwe's National Ho…

Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 06:49hrs | 32580 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe moves to eradicate child labour in agric sector

The Government of Zimbabwe, in collaboration with the National Employment Council for Agricultural Industry (NECAgriculture), is committed to eradicating child labor in the agricultural sector by implementing various labor market intervent…

Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 11:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt's â€˜Zionist' approach to land evictions condemned

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has condemned the government's heavy-handed approach to dealing with illegal land occupations, likening it to past controversial actions and expressing concerns about a potential return to the t…

Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter

13-year-old dies at shrine during labour

A Domboshava man who married a 13 year-old-girl who died at an apostolic church shrine while in labour has appeared in court. Raymond Guhwa (41) allegedly took his wife who was in labour to an unregistered Johane Marange Apostolic Shrine t…

Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Ex-RBZ workers win labour row

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has been ordered to pay a group of 168 retrenched former security officers' salary arrears accrued over two years, putting to rest a 15-year-old labour dispute. The salary arrears were accrued between February …

Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:09hrs | 1 | 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 President Emerson Mnangagwa who faces opposi…

Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:18hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Labour quota system key to reducing future conflict in Zimbabwe

The current president of NMWUZ - National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe, Mr Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka during an interview on labour and the combined 2023 Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government General Elections said the introduc…

Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:39hrs | 30 | by Maxwell Teedzai

Zimbabwe govt trampling on labour laws, says US

GOVERNMENT has failed to enforce labour laws, resulting in workers being subjected to unfair labour practises, a report on Zimbabwe's human rights practices for the year 2022 has revealed.In the report produced by the United States (US) St…

Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 19:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

SA Labour Court sets aside dismissal of three Zimbabwe immigrant lecturers

The Labour Court in Gqeberha has granted four lecturers, who are foreign nationals, an interdict to set aside their dismissals by the Port Elizabeth TVET College's Iqhayiya Campus.In the written ruling on Tuesday, the College was ordered t…

Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 18:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Kazembe Kazembe linked to child labour storm

HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe allegedly instructed Zanu-PF youths to block an investigation into allegations of child labour at white-owned farms in Mazowe district, Mashonaland Central province, it has emerged.Kazembe is the Zanu-…

Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

South Africa and foreign labour

THE unemployment rate in South Africa hit a new record high of nearly 35% in the third quarter of 2021 which some allege had an influence on the African National Congress (ANC) dismal performance in last year's local government elections.F…

Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:29hrs | 2 | by Tapiwa Gomo

Zimbabwe one of biggest labour exporters to UK

UNITED Kingdom's National Health Services (NHS) has revealed that Zimbabwe is one of its biggest exporters of labour in the health sector, ranking it as the second country after Nigeria in terms of the numbers of health professionals worki…

Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

No forced labour in Zimbabwe, Minister

There is no forced labour in Zimbabwe's prisons, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Professor Paul Mavima said on Tuesday while responding to reports presented by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and Amalgamated Rural …

Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 21:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Grace Mugabe in labour storm

FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe has been taken to court over unfair labour practices after she allegedly summarily fired her head cook Tariro Takawira and refused to process his dues.Takawira, who worked at Amai Mugabe Group of Schools, cla…

Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Labour storms out of TNF meeting

WORKERS' representatives stormed out of a Tripartite Negotiation Forum ( TNF) meeting in Harare yesterday in protest after government said it was unable to intervene in salary negotiations.Labour has been calling for salary increments to c…

Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 07:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter

Labour unions snub TNF revival attempt over workers' salaries

THE country's main labour unions humiliated Labour minister Paul Mavima when they refused to participate in the Tripartite Negotiation Forum (TNF) until government agrees to discuss the erosion of workers' salaries.In a letter dated Decemb…

Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter

Employment law changes in the UK : proposals in the pipeline for HR

Amid all the political turmoil in July, employers will be forgiven for missing a flurry of proposed new employment laws revealed as Boris Johnson's tenure in 10 Downing Street begins.Many of the proposals are still under consultation, so i…

Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 20:23hrs | 1 | by Muchie Shamuyarira

Labour registrar shuts down employment council to cover corruption

THE Registrar of Labour Grace Kanyayi has been taken to court after she unilaterally withdrew the certificate of registration for the National Employment Council (Nec) for Engineering and Iron and Steel Industry, to ostensibly cover up all…

Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 13:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa commissions new Labour Court

A well-organised labour system is critical in the progressive realisation of workers' rights and sustenance of business in the country, President Mnangagwa has said.Speaking during the commissioning of the Labour Court in Harare today, Pre…

Published: 13 May 2019 at 17:06hrs | | by Staff reporter

ZCTU slams Chinese violation of labour laws

THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has expressed concern over the alleged spike in labour abuse cases at Chinese-owned firms in the Midlands province.Speaking on the sidelines of the Workers' Day celebrations in Gweru this week, ZCTU ce…

Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

350 hours of free labour for street brawl student

A 22-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo student will perform 350 hours of community service for knocking out a teenager's teeth in a street fight on New Year's Eve.Bongani Moyo of Cowdray Park suburb appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Mr Stephen …

Published: 09 Jan 2017 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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 settlements could also be streamlined and register…

Published: 14 Aug 2016 at 13:09hrs | | by Lincoln Towindo

History of Labor in Zimbabwe before and after independence - Part one

If the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia; Ian Douglas Smith was alive today he would concur that the white regime lost the war because of the failure of the government to implement labor laws  and workers wages that were livable and d…

Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:50hrs | 49 | by Nomazulu Thata

New labour law should promote moral suasion and tripartism on the labour market

The recent presidential assent to the new labour bill should promote moral suasion and functional tripartism on the labour market in order to restore sanity which is conducive to production. The upset which bedeviled the labour in which mu…

Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 13:47hrs | | by Suitable Kajau

The controversies surrounding the Employee Weekly day of rest

The word tolerance is more prevalent in political circles in Zimbabwe.The word was more commonly used by the Organ on Healing and Reconciliation in the Zimbabwean inclusive government which was formed after the 2008 violent elections. The …

Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 05:50hrs | 2 | by Etiwel Mutero

Two Labour Court presidents sworn in

Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku has sworn in two Labour Court presidents, Ms Emilia Muchawa and Ms Philder Muzofa at the Supreme Court in the capital.The swearing in of Ms Muchawa and Ms Muzofa brings the number of Labour Court president…

Published: 06 Mar 2013 at 17:27hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter

11 top labour leaders arrested in Zimbabwe

Eleven top leaders of the breakaway faction of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) aligned to Lovemore Matombo were yesterday arrested and briefly detained after they led a demonstration in Harare aimed at pressuring employers to …

Published: 01 Mar 2012 at 12:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Get skilled or starve as Zanu PF has destroyed cheap labour

Whatever anyone's feelings, one can only say that Zanu PF has changed Zimbabwe. And whatever anyone feels about land redistribution, it has changed Zimbabwe's economy. In some far reaching, and unexpected ways.They have destroyed cheap lab…

Published: 20 Jun 2011 at 10:54hrs | | by Kubatana

Zimbabwe cannot afford labour's pay demands

WITHOUT exception, all employers have been confronted with demands from employees in general, and the labour force in particular, for increased wages. Most collective bargaining agreements have been reached after prolonged, usually very co…

Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 09:22hrs | | by Eric Bloch

Zibawu gets a 30 percent salary rise for Banks employees

BANK workers have been awarded a 30 percent salary increase backdated to 1 July 2010 following a ruling passed by an arbitrator appointed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare.The Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union (Zibawu) pre…

Published: 26 Jan 2011 at 12:17hrs | 1 | by Byo24News

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