This is an appeal against an award of the Arbitrator Honourable Viriri handed down on the 19th of May 2016. The appeal is brought in accordance with Section 98(10) of the Labour Act (Chapter 28:01). More
Applicant applied for the review of Respondent’s decision to terminate her employment on notice. She prayed that the decision be set aside. Respondent opposed the application. In due course the matter was set down for hearing. At the onset of oral argument Respondent raised 2 points in limine. I shall deal with the 2nd point which I consider as dispositive of the matter More
This is an appeal against an arbitral award which I am proceeding to determine on the record in terms of section 89 (2) (a)(i) of the Labour Act due to non-compliance with Practice Direction 1 of 2014. More
This is an appeal and review of the decision of the respondent employer’s appeals committee where it confirmed the appellant employee’s guilty verdict and dismissal penalty.
Facts giving rise to the appeal are that the appellant who was in the respondent’s employment as an ICT technician based at Harare Airport had occasion on 30 January 2014 to pick up a Nokia Asha phone from gate 6 where its owner one Sandra Chamunorwa a student on attachment with the National Handling Services Department had forgotten it.
Appellant did not surrender the phone immediately upon picking it up but took it to... More
A school girl in form 3 at a school headed by the appellant reported with the assistance of the school head and his wife that she had a love relationship with one of the teachers. More
This is an appeal against the arbitrator’s decision where she ruled that appellant employer had underpaid respondent’s employees’ gratuity when it used the industry code calculations as opposed to the model contained in the employees’ handbook forming part of the contract and which contained more favourable provisions.
The background to the matter is that the respondent employees who were in the appellant’s employ had their contracts terminated by efluxion of time. Their contracts were to be read in conjunction with a handbook which provided for among other issues the provision or gratuity or severance upon the expiration the contract. More
This is an appeal against the decision of the respondent’s Acting Chief Executive Officer. The appellant was employed as a Restaurant Manager. She was charged and convicted of conduct or omission which is inconsistent with the fulfilment of the express or implied conditions of the contract of employment. A penalty of dismissal was meted by the Designated Hearing Officer. The penalty was confirmed by the General Manager and subsequently by the Acting Chief Executive Officer. More
