The appellant was employed by the respondent as a teacher and stationed at Hanwa Primary School in Mashonaland East Province. He was charged on allegations of contravening paragraphs 1, 2 and 24 of the first schedule (section 2) of the Public Service Regulations (S I 1 of 2000). The grounds upon which the allegations were based were that he absented himself from duty without good cause or permission from 9 January 2010 to 1 March 2010, a total of forty eight days. More
The matter was placed before me as an appeal against an arbitral award wherein the Arbitrator had directed that the Appellant pay the Respondents the total amount of US$33 152.60 n underpayments. The Appellant was seeking the setting aside of the award. The appeal was opposed by the Respondent.
The parties appeared before the court on at least three occasions. On the last two occasions the matter was postponed to enable the parties to engage each other with a view to a possible out of court settlement of the matter. On the 23rd of May 2016 both parties appeared in... More
This is an appeal against the decision of the respondent employer’s disciplinary committee which found appellant employee guilty of misconduct and penalised her with dismissal. More
This is an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. The law on leave to appeal is settled. See CMED v Dombodzvuku SC 31-12.. A reading of the grounds of the intended appeal shows that applicants seeks to impugn the findings of fact by the court aquo that there was nothing remiss of the disciplinary committees conclusion that the employee was guilty since she favoured the committee with conflicting medical certificates on the same issue thus casting aspersions on the authenticity of same. More
