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Appellant was employed as a Truck driver by J and J transport. On 21 January, 2012, he was instructed to leave the depot at 6:00a.m to proceed with a copper convoy from Harare to Forbes. The Appellant then left the depot with his loaded truck and proceeded to Chitungwiza. Another driver who was supposed to form the convoy with him then rang the Operations manager, Mr Chipenzi and told him that he was alone at the depot and could not see the Appellant, whom he was supposed to form a convoy with. Other arrangements had to be made for that... More

This is an application for rescission of an order made in default by this Court against the applicant.The background is that sometime in 2015, the applicant was charged and dismissed from respondent’s employ for conduct inconsistent with the fulfillment of conditions of his contract and for disobedience of a lawful order. The applicant lost an internal appeal and referred the dispute to a Labour officer and subsequently to an arbitrator. The arbitrator set aside the decision to dismiss the applicant and ordered reinstatement. The respondent was aggrieved and lodged an appeal to the Labour Court under case number LC/H/1946/15. More

The court proceeded to deal with this appeal on the record, in terms of section 89 (2)(a)(i) of the Labour Act [Chapter 28:01] (“the Act”). More

This is an appeal against the decision of the Appeals Committee to uphold the decision of the Disciplinary Committee dismissing appellant from employment. Appellant, who was employed by the respondent was charged and convicted of various acts of misconduct. She was subsequently dismissed from employment. She appealed against the dismissal but was not successful before the Appeals Committee. She then appealed to this court. More

The two grounds of appeal upon which this appeal is based are that:- - The Honourable Arbitrator misdirected himself which misdirection amounts to a point of law in his analysis of the facts thereby dismissing Appellant’s claim for Marker-in 1 grade 5 when Appellant was employed by Respondent as such - The Honourable Arbitrator erred on a point of law in his analysis of the facts by dismissing the Appellant’s claim of the contra preferentem rule which is a trite principle of our law. More