Section 14 (4) of the Labour Act (Chapter 28:01) grants the employer the right to terminate the employment of an employee who has exhausted the sick leave prescribed in the Act or in the contract of employment if this is more favourable. Section 14 (4) provides as follows; (4) If, during any one-year period of service, […]
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A code of conduct refers to a set of policies and rules for employees and employers to follow at the workplace. Often, a company uses its core values, including its mission, to guide the creation of these codes. These guidelines outline how people can appropriately interact with one another at work and defines what constitute acts
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Discrimination refers to a situation when adverse action is taken against a person or particular group of people because they belong to a certain class of people or possess particular comparable attributes. Discrimination may be either direct or indirect. Direct discrimination occurs where negative action is taken against a particular person for having certain particular
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The COVID-19 global pandemic has almost brought the world to a halt. Employers and the employees world over have been hit harder by this untimely disaster. In Zimbabwe, on the 27th of March 2020, President Mnangagwa announced that the country would be on lock down for 21 days starting from Monday 30 March 2020. This
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One of the objectives of the Labour Act (Chapter 28:01) is to advance social justice and democracy in the workplace by securing the just, effective and expeditious resolution of disputes and unfair labour practices.(Section 2A(1)(f). In line with this objective, the Act frowns upon litigants who sit on their disputes or unfair labour practices in
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Prescription in Zimbabwe is governed by the Prescription Act (Chapter 8:11). The Act refers to two forms of prescription, acquisitive prescription and extinctive prescription. As the title of this article suggests the focus is on extinctive prescription. Prescription extinguishes a debt after the lapse of the period stated in the Act as applicable. The effect
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Section 12B (3) (a) of the Labour Act, Cap 28:01 states that an employee is deemed to have been unfairly dismissed if the employee terminated the contract of employment with or without notice because the employer deliberately made continued employment intolerable for the employee. This is the statutory definition of the doctrine of constructive dismissal.
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Leave refers to the amount of hours or days an employee of an organization is permitted to be away from their employment position within a year’s time without consequences. The Labour Act Chapter 28:01 and partly the Constitution of Zimbabwe deals with various types of leave in Zimbabwe. In this article we explore the various
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In Zimbabwe instant or summary dismissal is at all times now unlawful even where the employee is accused of having committed a blatant misconduct. But what is it that both employers and employees have to watch out for in order for the hearing to be passed as free and fair? In summary the following general
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