This is an application for review. The applicants are teachers at various schools in Harare. At the beginning of 2016, in January, applicants received letters requiring them to transfer to respective schools within Harare Province. The letters informed the applicants that these transfers were with immediate effect.
Applicants aver that there was no legitimate reason given for the orders to transfer except to state that there was overstaffing at the schools concerned. It was further alleged that these transfers were not planned as provided in section 13 (3) of the Public Service Regulations, Statutory Instrument 1 of 2000. Applicants alleged... More
This is an appeal against an arbitral award.
The appellant had a business contract with International Organization for Migration (IOM) to provide catering and cleaning services. To facilitate execution of such contract, the appellant employed the respondents who carried out the services. They were employed for the period September 2011 to December 2013 as general workers. When the employment relationship was terminated, the respondents lodged a claim for three months’ notice pay each. Their salaries had been $150-00 each. More
At the onset of oral argument, the respondent withdrew her objection to the appellant’s Supplementary Grounds of Appeal. These concisely set out the appellant’s case as follows: More
On the 28th April, 2016, Applicant who is a Designated Agent for the National Employment Council for the Printing Packaging and Newspaper Industry made a ruling in a dispute pitting L. Chigogora and 11 Others and Respondent. The issue in dispute was non-payment of compensation package arising from the termination of their contracts of employment on three months notice in October 2015.
In compliance with section 93(5) of the Labour Act as amended, Applicant filed an application for confirmation of her ruling by this Court.
On the 22nd July, 2016 this Court sat to deal with the application. The application... More
This is a counter application by the respondent for referral of certain constitutional issues to the Constitutional Court, in terms of section 175 (4) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe 2013 (“The Constitution”). More
This is an appeal against an arbitral award granted on 7 July 2014, in terms of which the respondent was ordered to pay the appellant certain amounts of money in fulfilment of a retrenchment package approved by the Minister of Labour and Social Welfare (the Minister). The arbitral award also disallowed certain items that had been approved in the retrenchment package.
Dissatisfied with the amounts awarded and the disallowances made by the arbitrator, the appellant lodged an appeal with this court. More
