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Wednesday, 09 January 2013 09:48
HARARE - Enginemen at the troubled National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) have downed tools protesting against a management decision to pay them $65 to assist pay tuition fees as the new school year begins. NRZ employees have had nothing to smile...Read More
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Friday, 04 January 2013 10:30
HARARE - Harare's parking business Easipark is battling a potentially crippling workers’ strike over contract renewal and salary issues. The workers, close to a hundred, took to the streets yesterday accusing Easipark of not following proper procedure in terminating their contracts...Read More
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Tuesday, 18 December 2012 10:19
HARARE - Production on the once productive farms has sharply deteriorated and farm workers are bearing the effects of the change — going for months without wages — more than a decade after the Zanu PF-led government invaded farms. Not everyone...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Friday, 14 December 2012 09:51
HARARE - Workers at a sewing factory in Harare’s Msasa industrial area have locked themselves at their workplace, vowing to leave only after their wage demands are met. When the Daily News visited Michelle Fashions owned by 2010 Zimbabwe National Chamber...Read More
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Thursday, 06 December 2012 11:15
HARARE - The current economic empowerment and indigenisation drive has generated a lot of interest among many Zimbabweans’ albeit from very divergent perspectives. While it is a norm that in any country, the natives of that particular land should have a...Read More
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Thursday, 22 November 2012 09:45
HARARE - Commercial Workers Union of Zimbabwe (CWUZ) secretary-general Joubert Mudzumwe and his messenger have appeared in court for allegedly stealing from the union. Mudzumwe, 46, and his messenger Tafirenyika Mushonga, 40, who are facing theft charges, allegedly stole $41 000...Read More
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Business »
Thursday, 01 November 2012 12:51
HWANGE - Coal miner Hwange Colliery Company Ltd (HCCL) has reinstated more than 200 of its retrenched workers after failing to settle a $6,4 million bill in retrenchment packages. HCCL is reported to have retrenched about 204 workers in June this...Read More
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012 11:27
BULAWAYO - Financially-troubled National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has reportedly decided to offload all contract employees, as the parastatal seeks to slash its wage bill. The transport and freight utility has been battling to timeously pay its employees. A number of...Read More
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Business » Roadwin Chirara, Business Editor
Tuesday, 23 October 2012 13:03
HARARE - Employees of FMI Zimbabwe (FMI) have approached the High Court seeking an order to compel Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere to cancel the former’s acquisition of BP & Shell Marketing Services (BPSMS) local assets. This comes after the minister was...Read More
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Tuesday, 23 October 2012 09:58
HARARE - Two Mashwede Diesel workers accused of trying to bribe Zanu PF’s Harare youth leader Jim Kunaka have been summoned back to court. Isheanesu Maribha, 34 and Gwezuva Changamire, 35, are accused of offering a bribe to Kunaka to use...Read More
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012 10:08
HARARE - Two Mashwede Diesel workers accused of trying to bribe Zanu PF’s Harare youth leader Jim Kunaka to allow for the construction of a $1,2 million service station and food court in Harare’s high density suburb of Mbare have been...Read More
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Thursday, 04 October 2012 09:38
HARARE - Employees of Rock Foundation Medical Centre in Harare yesterday began an indefinite sit-in strike to press their demands for salaries. Workers at the Mt Pleasant-based hospital are demanding, among other things, arrears in salaries of up to seven months....Read More
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Wednesday, 05 September 2012 13:44
HARARE - Medical workers employed by Harare CityCouncil are lazy, Harare Residents Trust (HRT) said yesterday. HRT director Precious Shumba, speaking during a budget pre-consultative meeting in Harare, said the increase in the number of referrals at central hospitals was a...Read More
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Features »
Monday, 03 September 2012 11:30
HARARE - From farm labourers and mine workers to the clock watchers who spend the day at government offices and privately-owned firms, misery seems to be the word that aptly describes the worker’s situation in Zimbabwe. Three years into a coalition...Read More
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