This is an appeal against a decision by the Appeals Officer of the respondent to upheld the determination and penalty imposed by the Disciplinary Authority. Appellant was employed the respondent as a Divisional Accountant based at the Southern Division at the Bulawayo depot. On 15 February 2016 appellant was suspended from duty on allegations of committing serious acts of misconduct. Disciplinary proceedings were held and appellant was found guilty. He was dismissed from employment on 9 March 2016. Appellant appealed to the Appeals Officer. He was successful on one ground. The rest of the grounds did not succeed and the... More
The applicant was employed as the Southern Division Accountant by respondent. On 15 February 2016 he was suspended from duty in terms of the National Code of Conduct, Statutory Instrument 15 of 2006. He was charged of gross incompetency or inefficiency in the performance of his work and habitual and substantial neglect of duties.
Following disciplinary proceedings held on 29 February 2016, the applicant was found guilty as charged and was dismissed from employment. More
The appellant in this matter was employed by the respondent as an accounts clerk in its accounts department.
Misconduct allegations were raised against the respondent. The charge was
“Lack of skill”
The specific allegations were;
• Wrongly compiling and submission of VAT returns.
• Petty cash – incorrect balances and absence of reconciliations for 2011.
• Reconciliation of debtors and creditors not done.
• Missing files, missing documents and incorrect filing system.
The respondent was found guilty and she was dismissed from employment. More
This is an appeal against a determination made by the Respondent Disciplinary Authority on 30th of March, 2022. The appeal is opposed. The material background facts to the matter are as follows; The Appellant was employed by the Respondent as a Driver/Salesman. He was engaged on a fixed term contract running from 1st of January, 2021 and expiring on 31st of March 2021. On the 23rd of March 2021 the Appellant was suspended from employment without pay or benefits. He was notified to attend a hearing on the 29th of March 2022. The allegations levelled were that he had violated... More
This is an application against the decision of the arbitrator who set aside the dismissal of the respondent employee on allegations of contravening the respondent Code of Conduct. In particular it was alleged that the respondent had flouted the appellant’s banking policy of banking branch money daily thus exposing the respondent’s cash to risk as it remained unbanked for periods exceeding 15 day stretches over the period in issue. More
