This is an appeal against the arbitrator’s decision where he ruled that the employer pays the employee only for the days she reported for duty between July 2023 and January 2024, quantify the wages within 14 working days of his order and make the payment within 30 days of the quantification. More
This is an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. The respondent raised an preliminary point that the application is improperly before the court in the absence of an application for condonation. More
The Appellant in this matter was wrongly cited as J.C. Gumbi (instead of Memory Marimira.) J.C. Gumbi is a representative from the Zimbabwe Rural District Workers Union (the union). The facts are that when Memory Marimira the actual Appellant approached the Union J.C. Gumbi noted an appeal against Respondent in his personal capacity. When the Respondent’s representative realised this they challenged J.C. Gumbi’s locus standi. Instead in its heads of argument the then Appellant J.C. Gumbi sought to justify what he termed a mistake. On the date of hearing a different representative from the Union appeared before the Court. He... More
This is an appeal against the decision of an arbitrator sitting at Harare. The sixteen respondents are former employees of the appellant. They were retrenched by the appellant after being placed on some form of leave “garden leave” which placed them “on call” – i.e. they did not go to work but had to be prepared to go to work whenever called upon to do so by the appellant. Consequently they were unable to meaningfully make private arrangements. As a result of this they aver that they are still owed their leave days. Should that be the case they should... More
