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This is an application for condonation of late filing of an appeal. The applicant is a former employee of the respondent. He was employed as a parking marshal at the relevant time when he incurred a $2.00 shortfall on the 6th of October 2014 in remitting his collections for the day. More

On 13th February 2014 at Harare, Arbitrator M. Dangarembizi issued an arbitration award. In terms thereof he dismissed Appellants’ claims against Respondent. Appellants then appealed to this Court. Respondent opposed the appeal. The grounds of appeal were two-fold as follows, “1. The Arbitrator erred by claiming that the Labour Act cannot override a clause in the Statutory Instrument which is inconsistent with it until it is repealed and registered with Section 82 of the Labour Act. The S.I. of Agriculture 393 of 1993 provides that the Agreement or allowances shall not apply to contract employees. This clause contravenes the Labour... More

The background to the matter is that the respondent employee filed his appeal with the Labour Court on 3 August 2015. The appeal was set down to be heard on 16 February 2016. Applicant employer defaulted on that day and the respondent employee applied that his appeal be allowed in the default of the employer. The default order was granted as prayed for. Irked by the default order the applicant applied to the Labour Court to have the default judgment set aside. It is the rescission application which is the subject of this judgment. More

On 21st December 2015 at Harare, Arbitrator T. Zimbudzana issued an arbitration award. He dismissed Appellant’s claim of unfair dismissal from employment by Respondent. He however awarded her claim for underpayments and terminal benefits. Appellant then appealed to this Court against the award. Respondent opposed the appeal. More

This is an appeal against a determination of the National Hearing Committee for the National Employment Council for the Communications and Allied Services (hereinafter referred to as the Appeals Committee). More

This is a chamber application for leave to appeal against the judgment of the Labour Court in terms of r 5 (2) of the Supreme Court (Miscellaneous Appeals and References) Rules, 1975. More

This is an appeal against the decision of an arbitrator wherein the Arbitrator set aside the employer’s decision to dismiss the respondent and made an award ordering the respondent’s reinstatement with an alternative of an award for damages should reinstatement be no longer possible. More