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Ingwebu workers protest poor working conditions
WORKERS at Bulawayo City Council's (BCC's) privatised Ingwebu Breweries are up in arms with their employer over poor working conditions, including unfair dismissals.Some of the works council m...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe administrator lays out debt settlement plan
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) has sent out debt settlement agreement proposals to its multitudes of creditors, including over 300 former workers axed as the troubled airline slipped into turbulence in the pas...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe slapped with $100m wage bill
AT least 300 workers fired by Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) five years ago, who have won a long-drawn legal battle to return to work, say they are owed $100 million in outstanding salaries by the struggling a...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe administrator under fire accused of 'gross incompetence'
AIR Zimbabwe administrator Reggie Saruchera has come under pressure to relinquish his role due to "gross maladministration, incompetence, mismanagement and wrongful and illegal deprivation" of salarie...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:16hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants told to change attitude
Chief Government workers in Mashonaland West risk losing their jobs if they are not up to the task of growing the province's economy, Provincial Affairs Minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka has said. ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Corruption exposed at the National Blood Service of Zimbabwe.
There is rampant corruption in private institutions and if the government does not quickly look into it, thousands of dollars will be siphoned from such organisation leaving such institutions financia...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 15:11hrs | 3 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabweans living in SA in Catch-22 situation
With a big basket, Hitele Hlalathi furiously picks grapes in a vast plantation that goes as far as the eye can see at a farm on the outskirts of South Africa's largest city.It is still 6am, bu...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Money changers vow to defy government
ILLEGAL foreign currency traders in Masvingo have vowed to defy a government move to criminalise their trade, saying it is the same administration that has ushered them into the streets because of lac...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Banks told not to hide behind prescribed minimum payouts
THE Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers' Union (ZIBAWU) says financial institutions have the capacity to pay their former employees more than the prescribed minimum retrenchment payouts under the July 1...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Oliver Kazunga
30 companies seek to dodge retrenchment payouts
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has referred to the Retrenchment Board more than 30 companies seeking exemption from paying retrenchment packages to dismissed workers.Following th...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 06:22hrs | | by Oliver Kazunga
Private sector behind import ban - Bimha
The controversial statutory instrument 64, SI64, that restricts importation of basic goods was recommended by the private sector, a cabinet minister has said.Industry and Commerce Minister Mik...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 07:50hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
NRZ fires 12 enginemen
Twelve National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) engine-men have been fired for allegedly absconding work for seven straight days.The affected are part of hundreds who are on a crippling two month s...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 09:58hrs | 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
Clover Leaf ordered to reinstate 23 fired workers
Clover Leaf Motors, has been ordered to reinstate or pay damages in lieu of reinstatement to its 23 former employees who were unlawfully dismissed last year following the Supreme Court ruling which al...Published: 05 May 2016 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mudenda reprimands Kereke
The Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda yesterday reprimanded Bikita West Member of the National Assembly Dr Munyaradzi Kereke for deviating from findings of a portfolio committee ...Published: 04 May 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Egoli no longer the place of gold
Matthias Nkomo is a resident of Plumtree who worked as a waiter in neighbouring South Africa for over 30 years.When he left Zimbabwe back then, Johannesburg was popularly known as Egoli, loose...Published: 06 Nov 2015 at 06:14hrs | 9 | by Mandla Tshuma
Zanu PF victory came with massive joblessness
MDC led by Welshman Ncube's member Discent Collins Bajila has said the inroads gained by Zanu PF winning most parts of Matabeleland South and now gaining seats in Bulawayo has come with an upsurge in ...Published: 13 Oct 2015 at 10:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'For sale' signs on ZRP office doors
Walking through the corridors of the homicide section at Harare's main police station, it is the "for sale" signs on office doors that stand out more than the stench coming from the dimly-lit undergro...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 11:32hrs | 1 | by Reuters
Mujuru's manifesto has a clarity, says Analyst
Political analyst Pedzisayi Ruhanya has said former Vice president Joice Mujuru and her People First manifesto was having a clarity which made them more different to Zanu PF."Former Vice Presi...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 07:50hrs | | 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
NRZ fires 68 apprentices
The National Railways of Zimbabwe sacked 68 students who were on apprenticeship using the Supreme Court ruling that upholds an employer's right to fire workers on three months' notice without bene...Published: 25 Aug 2015 at 08:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt to lose revenue on workers' dismissals
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has indicated that the government will lose a lot of revenue which it used to collect from workers as income tax and other taxes following the escalate...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 07:18hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
PDZ party leader say job loses will result to early deaths and crime
Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe leader Barbra Nyagomo who is based in the United Kingdom has warned that the escalating job loses which has seen more than 20 000 people fired after the supreme Court...Published: 20 Aug 2015 at 08:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF UK accuse Tsvangirai for failure to comment on the new Labour bill
The Zanu-PF United Kingdom chapter has accused MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai for failing to issue a statement of comment publicly on the issue of the new labour bill being discussed in parliam...Published: 19 Aug 2015 at 10:18hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu PF administration sleeps on duty
The MDC-T Bulawayo deputy Spokesperson Felix Mafa Sibanda has accused Zanu PF for sleeping on duty following the wave of workers dismissals which resulted from the Supreme Court ruling that granted c...Published: 19 Aug 2015 at 07:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe companies recall retrenched workers
A number of companies are reportedly recalling workers they fired on three months' notice to avoid compensation outlined in the Labour Amendment Bill gazetted last Friday and set for debate in Parliam...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Zanu-PF UK consoles dumped workers
Zanu PF United Kingdom Chapter has consoled the over 20 000 workers who lost their jobs after the Supreme Court of July 17 ruled in favour of Zuva Petroleum granting the company permission to fire...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 08:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZCTU accuse govt of sidelining social partners in amendment of Labour Act
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions Secretary general Japhet Moyo has accused the government for sidelining labour and Employers as social partners in the amendment of the labour act which it blam...Published: 16 Aug 2015 at 09:15hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Call for mass protest against Mugabe mounts
Calls for mass protests against President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF government over country's misrule are mounting with political parties and individual members of the society indicating that it w...Published: 16 Aug 2015 at 09:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Job loses started with Mujuru and others and we laughed - analyst
Political analyst Methuseli Moyo said the job loses started with former Vice president Joice Mujuru, Didymas Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo and people laugh, now the toll has extended top the general workers...Published: 15 Aug 2015 at 07:10hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Labour Law Amendment Bill a welcome development
The proposed amendments in the Labour bill are a welcome development which are poised to make a difference on the chaotic labour market which rendered over 20 000 workers jobless in the past four week...Published: 14 Aug 2015 at 12:57hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Call for unity of Zim working people to confront government mounts
The calls for the Zimbabwean working people to come together to confront the government are mounting following the wave of job loses which have gripped the country in the past one month after the Supr...Published: 14 Aug 2015 at 06:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Supreme Court Judges must resign, says MDC-T spokesperson
MDC-T BULAWAYO deputy spokesperson Felix Mafa Sibanda has challenged the Supreme Court Judges to resign following their ruling which has resulted to over 20 000 workers losing jobs in a space of...Published: 11 Aug 2015 at 12:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zinef concerned over firing of journalists
The Zimbabwe National Editors Forum (Zinef) new acting chairman Njabulo Ncube has said his organisation is very much concerned over the dismissal of journalists from work following the Supreme Court r...Published: 09 Aug 2015 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe disowns job cuts directive
President Robert Mugabe's office has denied responsibility for the mass retrenchment of workers by parastatals after the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) said it was under pressure to use a recen...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deteriorating economy an arena of contestation - Ruhanya
Political commentator and media scholar Pedzisai Ruhanya has said the deteriorating economic situation and mass jobs cut is a serious arena of contestation in Zimbabwe.Ruhanya's remarks co...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 07:25hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZCTU declares 16 000 workers affected by the dismissal wave in private sector
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) secretary general Japhet Moyo has said 16000 workers have been so far fired from the private sector while 3000 have been dismissed from the public sect...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 07:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF lines up 3 crunch meetings
Zanu-PF is set to hold high-level meetings this week, starting with a Politburo meeting today, Central Committee meeting on Friday and the National Consultative Assembly on Saturday. Presi...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will 'vendorisation' be Mugabe's lasting legacy?
Does Robert Mugabe accept that by allowing over 9,000 workers to lose their jobs since the 17 July Supreme Court ruling, this 'vendorisation' of Zimbabwe will be his lasting legacy?I couldn't ...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 18:11hrs | 1 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Zanu-PF ministers supports ongoing job losses
Mike Bimha, the industry and commerce minister, said the ongoing wave of job losses is good for the industry.According to the Source, the minister said local companies had been saddled with...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 15:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's MDC-T thrives on crisis
Recent developments, among them, the vending issue, the alleged disappearance of Itai Dzamara and the Supreme Court labour ruling, have exposed MDC-T as a party that always attempts to flourish on cri...Published: 28 Jul 2015 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
ZUJ organises meeting to discuss workers plight following Supreme Court rulings
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) has invited all its members to attend a meeting to deliberate on the way forward concerning the plight of workers following the Supreme Court ruling which g...Published: 28 Jul 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Probe companies owned by Judges - Mafume
MDC Renewal spokesperson Jacob Mafume has said it is necessary to probe the companies owned by Judges following their Supreme Court Ruling which granted companies permission to dismiss workers aft...Published: 26 Jul 2015 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Chidyausiku judgement challenged
Don Nyamande and Kingstone Donga former Zuva Petroleum employees whose case has triggered a flurry of job cuts have approached the Constitutional Court challenging the Supreme Court ruling that em...Published: 24 Jul 2015 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Firms fire 1000 workers on Thursday
AT least 1 000 workers from different companies were fired on Thursday countrywide.Zimasco reportedly sacked 648 workers.According to reports, an estimated 3 000 workers have bee...Published: 24 Jul 2015 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Land mark ruling on Zimbabwe's employment contract termination
The Supreme Court has ruled that employers can terminate contracts of employment by giving three months notice of their intention to do so.The judicial precedent follows a case where former BP...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 16:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai heavily criticised
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai was yesterday heavily criticised by workers who attended the Workers' Day commemorations organised by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions at Gwanzura Stadium after ...Published: 02 May 2015 at 13:27hrs | | by Farirai Machivenyika and Diana Nherera
Tsvangirai urges workers to take to the streets
HARARE - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday urged workers to take to the streets to demand the 2 million jobs promised by President Robert Mugabe in the run up to last year's general electi...Published: 02 May 2014 at 11:38hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'2014 National Budget is the worst in the history of Zimbabwe' - ZCTU
The 2014 National Budget statement presented by Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa on Thursday, has angered Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) who have described it as "anti-workers" and "th...Published: 21 Dec 2013 at 03:52hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
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