This is an appeal against an arbitral award requiring the appellant to reinstate the respondent or in lieu thereof pay him damages.
The respondent was employed by the Appellant in 2001 as a security guard. He rose through the different ranks until he became an Operations and Fore Court Manager a post he held at the time of dismissal. During the course of his employment it was alleged that respondent had committed some acts of misconduct. Subsequently the respondent was served with a letter of suspension dated 26 July 2011. It is important that I set out the contents of... More
This is an appeal against an arbitral award issued on 10 November 2014, which dismissed the appellants’ claim that their employment was unlawfully terminated.
The appellants were employed by the respondent in various capacities. After the annual shutdown of December 2013/January 2014, the appellants were advised not to report for duty until work was available. The respondent was facing viability problems, mainly caused by the demolition of houses taking place in Chitungwiza. This adversely affected its construction business. More
The material background facts are as follows;
The Applicant was employed by the Respondent as a bus washer from 2003. The Labour Court found that he had been unlawfully dismissed and handed down the order as reflected supra. The Respondent, having opted out of reinstatement the Applicant approached this court for quantification of his claims. The original claim was for $34 880.27 to cover backpays and damages in lieu of reinstatement. That claim was however supplemented through papers filed on the 18th of September 2012 to reflect a total claim for $44 062.56. More
This is an appeal against the decision of the Respondent to dismiss the Appellant on allegations of contravening the Respondent Code of conduct SI 165 or 1995 Part B Section 4 (a) (iv) Misappropriation; applying or attempting to apply to a wrong use for unauthorized purpose any funds, assets or property belonging to the company ;
and
4 (a) (i) bribery or corruption; giving or receiving or attempting to give or receive any bribe of inducing, or attempting to induce any person to perform any corrupt act;
and
4 (a) (ii) false evidence, deliberately giving untrue, erroneous or misleading information... More
