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Sex-for-jobs supervisor suspended
A SUPERVISOR, who is at the heart of a sex-for-jobs scandal unfolding at a retail outlet in Gweru, was suspended last week, H-Metro revealed.Abel Chikanya's shenanigans with fellow female empl...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 18:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Deputy mayor in ‘smuggling' storm
CHITUNGWIZA deputy mayor Kiven Mutimbanyoka's business has been placed under investigation by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) following allegations that he smuggled fruits, vegetables and groce...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:28hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner in fresh labour storm
CHINESE-OWNED Fools Investment Mine in Hope Fountain near Bulawayo has reportedly dismissed all its underground workers without notice, prompting the trade union which represents workers to threaten t...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:50hrs | 2 | 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 lacks capacity to reinstate fired workers'
A recent Supreme Court victory by about 200 former Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) employees in a class action lawsuit to the effect that they be reinstated after being sacked five years ago may have been an ex...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa banks on funds from Mnangagwa to pay fired workers
THE MDC is banking on State funds to pay off thousands of dollars owed to 145 party employees fired last month after going for 11 months without getting their dues.The cash-strapped opposition...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by newzimbabwe
VP Chiwenga threatens businesses
Vice President Chiwenga, a known extremist, has threatened businesses that he said were enganging in financial terrorism with unspecified action.Speaking at the business conference at the 60th...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 10:48hrs | | by Methusi Ncube
Mnangagwa petitioned over Zesa corruption
Youth Against Corruption (Yac) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa demanding him to act on corruption at power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa).Yac accused Zesa senior management of firing...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 13:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa taken to task over mass dismissals
A workers' union has emerged pitching its narrative around the mass dismissal of workers following a Supreme Court judgment in July 2015 in which MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa was...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Windfall for retrenched workers
Thousands of workers whose contracts were arbitrarily terminated on notice pursuant to the infamous Zuva Petroleum judgment of July 2015 will now be paid damages for loss of employment.The hig...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Immigration boss scoffs at bribe allegations
The Immigration Department has said it will remain resolute and steadfast when discharging its duties, despite reports by some disgruntled former officers who have gone on a crusade alleging that the ...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 associates purged from Zanu-PF
AT least 15 Zanu-PF staffers were recently dismissed from work on allegations of being associated with the fallen G40 or having been employed by the former secretary for administration Ignatius Chombo...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle scandal rocks Traffic Safety Council
Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) managing director Obio Chinyere is embroiled in a scandal for allegedly selling a company vehicle in contravention of laid down procedures.An internal...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fired workers take Chidyausiku judgment to ILO
SACKED TelOne workers have written to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to express concern over a decade-old Supreme Court judgment validating their dismissal.The judgment wa...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 18:56hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Fired workers to be re-instated
THOUSANDS of workers who were retrenched when most companies embarked on massive job layoffs in the last two years are set to be re-engaged mainly in agro-processing companies that are gearing for...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fired workers re-hired--- Joseph Made says
Several agro-processing firms which fired thousands of workers in the last two years are due to re-hire them, a cabinet minister has said.Government has already inst...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 04:05hrs | | 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
Air Zimbabwe to reinstate 300 fired workers
National carrier, Air Zimbabwe, has been ordered by the Labour Court to reinstate about 300 workers it fired nearly two years ago.Air Zimbabwe chief executive Ripton Muzenda told a parliam...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Election boycotts, Demos and Rigging
AFTER MARCHING THEN WHAT?DEMOSOf late Media has been awash with National Electoral Reforms Agenda demonstrations where Opposition parties engage...Published: 01 Oct 2016 at 07:48hrs | 4 | by Mangosuthu Mbele
Reprieve for fired workers
Workers are empowered by the law to apply for sequestration of companies in circumstances where management fails to honour obligations such as retrenchment packages, salary arrears and pensions am...Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ sack workers for attending strike meetings
National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) Lewis Mukwada has been accused of sacking workers claiming they were absent from work yet they were attending meetings with him and the board.The struggling...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 13:00hrs | 2 | by Thobekile Zhou
2 000 to lose jobs as Govt takes over 4000 hectares
The country which is facing a serious unemployment crisis could see another 2 000 employees losing jobs in the next few weeks as Government has started moves to take away a further 4 000 hectares ...Published: 27 May 2016 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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
$5 million for fired workers
The government has availed $5 million to be disbursed to workers whose employment contracts were terminated on three months' notice, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira...Published: 02 May 2016 at 11:38hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
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
'Govt to restore order in Chitungwiza,' says Kasukuwere
Government yesterday vowed to restore order in Chitungwiza, describing it as one of the worst-run local authorities.Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuw...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 06:04hrs | | by Lovemore Meya
Fired workers appeal to Grace Mugabe
Nine workers fired by the Zimbabwe Pharmaceutical company following the Supreme Court's landmark labour ruling in July this year have appealed to the Labour ministry and First Lady Grace Mugabe to int...Published: 15 Dec 2015 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
RMS management clash with fired workers over payouts
The Road Motor Service (RMS) private limited company is embroiled in a fight with fifteen former workers who were dismissed on three months notices and have not yet been paid their dues to date....Published: 12 Dec 2015 at 06:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZBC reengages fired workers
ZBC has extended contracts for scores of fired but re-engaged workers by a further three months with the renewal dependent on need. The contracts which expired last Friday were renewed on ...Published: 24 Nov 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
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' co...Published: 03 Sep 2015 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
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...Published: 31 Aug 2015 at 13:47hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Fired workers are ' jobless and not landless' says Nathaniel Manheru
Controversial State media columnist, Nathaniel Manheru, widely believed to be President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba has boosted that more than 20 000 fired workers could b...Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 14:18hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
6 more journalists fired at AMH
Alpha Media Holdings yesterday reportedly fired six more journalists in a bid to cut down on operational costs. This is the second time the publishers of NewsDay, The Zimbabwe Independent and ...Published: 22 Aug 2015 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU skeptical over the benefits of the new labour laws
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has lamented that despite the new labour laws being put in place being good for the workers but there are some sections which are not good which the government se...Published: 18 Aug 2015 at 07:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Compensation for fired workers
Thousands of workers dismissed on three month notices will be entitled to compensation for termination of their contracts if the labour amendment bill gazetted last Friday becomes law. Leg...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fired workers entitled to compensation
The thousands of workers dismissed on three-month notices will be entitled to compensation for termination of their contracts, if the Labour Amendment Bill gazetted last Friday becomes law.Leg...Published: 16 Aug 2015 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF UK sympathises with fired workers in Zimbabwe
ZANU PF United Kingdom chapter has sympathised with fired workers in Zimbabwe imagining how would they survive after they were sent home without terminal benefits after spending more time at the compa...Published: 15 Aug 2015 at 07:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Herald, ZBC retrench hundreds of employees
With Zimbabwe's economy in the doldrums and showing no prospects of recovering any time soon, State media organisations - the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and Zimpapers, the publishers of T...Published: 08 Aug 2015 at 14:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Fired workers take Daily News to Court
Seven fired Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe employees yesterday filed a Con Court application challenging the legality of their dismissal. Lawyer Tonderai Bhatasara is representing the f...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara fires 9 managers, retrenches 300
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) has fired 9 management staff and more than 300 low level workers who have been issued with letters of termination of contract on three months' notice...Published: 01 Aug 2015 at 15:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Employers need a re-think on termination of workers contracts
The recent events leading to massive laying-off of workers on the labour front seem to be receiving full backing of the relevant laws. In spite the legality of these aspects, it is prudent that we loo...Published: 28 Jul 2015 at 21:09hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Meikles fired workers to save business
Meikles Limited which fired 33 workers last week in Bulawayo has said it was the only option to keep business viable.The company served employees with termination of employment letters while a...Published: 24 Mar 2015 at 12:36hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
MDC-T seeks out-of-court settlement with fired employees
MDC-T has approached lawyers representing its 13 fired workers seeking to stop the removal and auctioning of several vehicles attached by the sheriff in settlement of labour damages owing to the ex-em...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 07:47hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Was DEMAF meant for South Africans?
As we approach Workers Day on the first of May 2014 many workers have nothing to celebrate. The sad reality is that in Zimbabwe only civil servants and a few workers in the private sector will cel...Published: 29 Apr 2014 at 14:46hrs | 1 | by Concerned Bulawayo workers
Trouble in paradise as MDC-T fires more workers
THE embattled MDC-T party has fallen on hard times and is in the process of retrenching 55 of its estimated 150 staff members due to financial problems, it has emerged.Sources at Harvest House...Published: 22 Sep 2013 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bearing the brunt: Labour and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe
This article is found in the Southern Africa Report Vol 8, No 5, 1 May 1993, we extracted it from the internet and we think it adds value as to the reason why Zimbabwe is where it is today. Many peopl...Published: 16 Jul 2011 at 19:40hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Sachikonye
Massmart fired workers for attending anti-sanctions campaign
FOUR workers with a Harare wholesaler lost their jobs for taking a day off to attend the National Anti-Sanctions Petition Campaign launch by President Mugabe early this year.Freddie Matika, Vi...Published: 20 Jun 2011 at 04:25hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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