The applicants are former employees of the respondent. Their employment contracts were terminated and they challenged the termination. The matter was taken before a designated agent who confirmed termination for all but two of the employees. The decision was appealed to the Labour Court. The appeal was upheld. The respondent did not reinstate the applicants. They approached the designated agent seeking that the respondent be ordered to reinstate the applicants. The respondent raised the preliminary issue of res judicata, arguing that the designated agent had already dealt with the matter. The designated agent held that the matter of reinstatement was... More
Applicant alleges that he was employed by the respondent from 1988 and was promoted to the post of Unit Supervisor with effect from 1 May 1998. Applicant further avers that at one time during the course of employment he suffered from mental illness and had to be absent from work. He further states that when he reported for duty he was assigned to work in a different unit. Applicant further submitted that he was later told to go home and would be called by the respondent. It was stated that despite having reported for duty, respondent continually turned him away... More
This matter was set down for the purposes of hearing argument on an application for condonation of late noting of an appeal. The parties did not file heads of argument as required by the Rules of this Court – Statutory Instrument 59/2006 (Rule 19). When parties appeared I enquired as to why heads not been filed. More
This is an appeal against a determination by the Appeals Authority handed down on 11th June 2014 which determination upheld or earlier decision by the respondent’s Disciplinary Committee to dismiss the appellant from employment with effect from the 11th of June 2014.
The material background facts to the matter are as follows;
The appellant was employed by the respondent. At the material time of the commission of the misconduct he was engaged as a supervisor in the Sorting Section.
On the 20th of May 2014 the appellant was deployed on the main plant sorthouse. He was supervising a group of... More
This is an appeal against the award by honourable arbitrator Gurupira handed down on 27 October 2014.The Claimant was employed by the respondent as a General Manager Administration and statistics. He was employed from June 2006 to June 2013 when his contract was terminated.
The arbitrator noted that there was no contract but from the payslip, he noted that he was entitled to a basic salary, club/gym allowance and a car benefit, and a 10% commission as per a memo communicated on 20 December 2010. A fuel allowance was also due and there was evidence that it had been cut... More
