This is an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against a judgment handed down on 24 October 2014.
The respondent was employed as a general hand by the applicant. He was charged of actual or attempted theft, embezzlement, fraud or bribery in terms of the code of conduct for the Welfare & Educational Institutions. He was found guilty and dismissed by a disciplinary committee. An internal appeal confirmed this.
I found that the respondent had been wrongly found guilty. I consequently ordered reinstatement without loss of salary and benefit from the date of unlawful dismissal with the... More
This is an appeal against the arbitrator’s decision in a labor dispute between the appellant employer and the respondent employee.
The background facts of the matter are that the employer employed the employee as a teacher on a contract with a probation period. Upon expiration of the probation period the employer issued a notice to the employee that it was not extending her contract. Aggrieved by the non-extension of her contract the employee took the matter up with the result that the arbitrator gave a determination in her favour. This prompted the employer to appeal against the arbitrator’s decision. More
This is an application for the review of a retrenchment package approved by the 1st respondent in favour of the 2nd to the 52nd respondents.
The 2nd – 52nd respondents (retrenchees) were retrenched by the applicant in August 2015. Their retrenchment was approved by the second respondent, the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare (the Minister) on 24 August 2015.
The terms and conditions of the approved retrenchment are as follows:
Terms and conditions of the Retrenchment
Service pay 1 month salary/year served
Severance pay 2 months salary
Relocation allowance 1 month salary
Period of payment requested by... More
The above mentioned matter was set down for hearing before me on the 4th of April 2012. During the course of hearing the Appellant then indicated his wish to produce certain documents as evidence before the court.
As these documents had not been produced in the proceedings a quo the Appellant was directed by the court to lodge a formal application for leave to introduce that evidence. The Respondent was then granted leave to file its response to the application. The Appellant having filed the application and the Respondent its response thereto the following is the court’s ruling on the... More
This is an appeal against the decision of the Disciplinary Authority dated 9 October 2015. Appellant was employed as a Deputy Head Master stationed at Bromely Primary School, Goromonzi District in Mashonaland East. He was charged of misconduct on 14 December 2014 in terms of Section 44 (2) of SI 1/2000. More
