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Civil Service Retrenchments Planned, Yet Almost 60 Ministers In 3rd Reshuffle In Less Than One Year

Posted on September 12, 2015September 12, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabwe’s despot president Robert Mugabe has delivered, what can only be described as a cabinet reshuffle that is insensitive to the prevailing circumstances affecting the people , through an expansion of what is already considered by many to be a bloated cabinet, in a third cabinet reshuffle in less than a year. In the face of the government’s excessively huge wage bill, a broke government and dead economy, Mugabe on Friday chose to appoint 14 new ministers, including deputies and a…

‘US$3m Demanding Harare Town Clerk Fired On 3Months’ Notice’-Supreme Court Ruling

Posted on August 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

SUSPENDED Harare Town Clerk, Tendai Mahachi has been fired under the Supreme Court ruling allowing employees to be dismissed without hefty redundancy packages. Mahachi’s lawyers recently told the local authority that their client would not leave the job unless they gave him a $3 million exit package. The list of demands submitted to council included $100,000 salary for every year he served, a new Jeep Cherokee Overland registered in his name at the local authority’s…

Riot Police Move In After BANC-ABC Bank Fires 75 Workers, Sparking Demonstrations

Posted on August 27, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

BANC-ABC has fired 75 workers, sparking demonstrations outside its Arundel offices as the financial institution joins a growing list of Zimbabwean companies taking advantage of a recent Supreme Court ruling which makes it easier to dismiss employees without severance pay. The fired workers staged demonstrations on Tuesday at the bank’s local head office in protest against the dismissals they claimed were illegal, forcing management to call riot police who subsequently sealed off entrances into the…

‘Opposition And Civic Society Calls For Mass Protest Against Mugabe Misrule, Mounts’

Posted on August 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

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 was the only option that came solve the economic crisis which has stayed for so long in the country. Chalton Hwende said he think it’s high time people could lead the toiling masses in massive street protests and demonstrations until Mugabe and his cabal are gone….

Mugabe To Now Stop Zimbabwean Companies Firing Workers, By Forcing Them Into Bankruptcy!

Posted on August 16, 2015August 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Since last month’s Supreme Court ruling allowing employers to lay-off employees with three months’ notice over 20 000 workers have been fired in three weeks, with thousands more now in the pipe line. Of course the nation has reason to be alarmed! Laying-off workers is cause for concern for any nation but for a nation like Zimbabwe with unemployment rate already 90% plus any laid-off worker is a tragic loss. The 20 000 laid-off workers…

Supreme Court ruling: ‘Hospitality Group African Sun Has Fired At Least Nine Top Managers

Posted on August 15, 2015August 15, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

HOSPITALITY group African Sun has fired at least nine top managers and consolidated operational oversight under the chief executive’s office, The Source has established. The restructuring follows last month’s Supreme Court ruling upholding employers’ right to dismiss workers on notice and without severance packages. Labour unions say over 20,000 workers have lost their jobs in the advent of the July 17 ruling, with hundreds being dismissed daily. Market sources and documents in the possession of…