AirZimbabwe Abandons Over 20 Judges In Victoria Falls, Who Eventually Resort To Hiking Back To Harare

OVER 20 judges of the Supreme, High and Labour courts are stranded at Victoria Falls Airport over the past two days after Air Zimbabwe failed to pick them up despite that they had return tickets. It is not like they [Air Zimbabwe] have refused. They have developed problems and we have been kept aware of developments by Air Zimbabwe. We are looking at about 20 judges, who are in Victoria Falls. Everything will be resolved,”…

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Rape Victim Wins Compensation For Police Failure To Prevent Pregnancy Emanating From Her Rape Ordeal.

Rape Victim Wins Compensation For Police Failure To  Prevent Pregnancy Emanating From Her Rape Ordeal.

The High Court has ordered the Ministries of Home Affairs and Health and Child Care to pay US$6 500 in damages to Mildred Mapingure, a rape victim, for their liabilities in failing to prevent pregnancy emanating from her rape ordeal. Mapingure approached the High Court citing the two ministries as respondents in March last year seeking ten thousand dollars as damages and forty one thousand dollars as maintenance for the child. The court found that…

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Recent Supreme & High Court Judges Appointments, Race To Replace Aged Chidyausiku

Government has begun preparing for the succession of the country’s Chief Justice, Godfrey Chidyausiku, who is nearing the mandatory retirement age of 70 years.Zimbabwe’s judges must retire at 65 years but can stay until 70 years if they can demonstrate good mental and physical health certified by a doctor. Chidyausiku will be turning 70 years in 2017, an eventuality that has made government to start preparing for his exit. As if to confirm that he…

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Welshman Ncube : ‘Zimbabwe, From Two Million Employed Down To Two Million Unemployed’

Welshman Ncube : ‘Zimbabwe, From Two Million Employed Down To Two Million Unemployed’

BY THE the time you read this piece, the Parliament of Zimbabwe would have passed the Labour (Amendment) Bill, 2015. It seeks to solve a labour problem for which many blame either the Supreme Court or overzealous employers said to have unscrupulously taken advantage of the Supreme Court ruling on notice termination of employment to engage in mass dismissals of employees without compensation. I have read gloatingly provocative postings online by Zanu PF mandarins calling…

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MDC-T Storm Out Of Senate In Protest As Heartless Zanu PF Block Bigger Packages For Fired Workers

MDC-T  Storm Out Of Senate In Protest As Heartless Zanu PF Block Bigger Packages For Fired Workers

MDC-T Senators on Thursday walked out of the Upper House during a debate on the Labour Amendment Bill after their proposed changes were rejected by Zanu PF counterparts. The opposition party was of the view it had been promised Tuesday, when the bill was debated in the National Assembly, that their amendments would be incorporated during the Senate discussions. But, woefully outnumbered by the ruling party, MDC-T Senators were left exposed after labour minister Prisca…

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Ncube Warns ‘Allowing Parliament To Make Back-Dated Labour Laws Changes Could Backfire’

Ncube  Warns ‘Allowing Parliament To Make Back-Dated  Labour Laws Changes Could Backfire’

OPPOSITION MDC leader Welshman Ncube has warned that allowing parliament to make back-dated changes to labour laws could backfire “Once that becomes acceptable then what will stop any government of the day from willy-nilly taking away our rights retrospectively?” Ncube said in brief statement. He added “When those who are asserting the unprincipled position that there is no restriction to the making of retrospective laws become victims of such laws they will be the first…

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‘Harare City Council, Lays Off 3000 Employees’: -Supreme Court Ruling

‘Harare City Council, Lays Off 3000 Employees’: -Supreme Court Ruling

In an  unprecedented wave of the failed Zanu PF government, orchestrated redudancies, the Harare City Council has joined the bandwagon of dismissals by  laying off a total of almost  3000 workers on three months’ notice, courtesy of the recent Supreme Court ruling. To everyone’s surprise, these dismissals have been excecuted at atime  that Mugabe’s Zanu PF regime is feigning concern by claiming that they are currently working on amending the Labour Act, to curtail the ruthless wave of dismissals….

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‘Zanu PF UK Chapter Consols Workers Who Lost Their Jobs’: Supreme Court Ruling

‘Zanu PF UK Chapter Consols Workers Who Lost Their Jobs’: Supreme Court Ruling

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 workers at three months notice. In its FaceBook post the Zanu PF UK said workers take heart.  “The Labour Amendment bill which was gazetted on Friday obligates the employer who heartlessly threw you on the street without even the 3…

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ZCTU Accuse Mugabe’s Zanu PF Regime Of Sidelining Social Partners In Labour Act Amendment

ZCTU Accuse Mugabe’s  Zanu PF Regime Of Sidelining Social Partners In  Labour Act Amendment

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 blames for causing the firing of over 20 000 workers in a space of one month. The job loses came after the Supreme Court using the labour Act ruled that employers have a legal ri9ght to fire workers after giving them three months notice…

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About 100 Of 250 CMED, Dismissed Workers Challenge Employer, Seeking Decision Reversal

About 100  Of 250 CMED,  Dismissed Workers Challenge Employer, Seeking Decision Reversal

About 100 of the 250 CMED workers whose contracts were terminated last week under the wave of job cuts triggered by the Supreme Court’s recent labour ruling have challenged their employer to reverse the decision alleging it was illegal. The workers challenged the CMED through their lawyers Chakanyuka and Associates, saying the company must prove that the board and management chaired by Godwills Masimirembwa, which was appointed to run the affairs of the company, had…

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