POLITICS

'Zanu-PF, army, police and CIO inflate govt wage bill'

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa continues to pay ghost workers unearthed by a civil service audit a few years ago, former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has claimed.Biti told newzimbabwe.com in an intervie...

By newzimbabwe | Published: 03 May 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Anchor wage talks on 10% inflation: RBZ

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says employers and labour unions should anchor any wage negotiations for next year on the projected 10 percent year-on-year inflation. This emerged during the 6th an...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 November 2018

MINING & RETAIL

SA gold unions reject insulting wage increase proposals

Gold wage negotiations between producers, AngloGold Ashanti, Harmony, Sibanye-Stillwater and Village Main Reef, and representative unions, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU),...

By Agencies | Published: 25 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Sewage bursts out of control

A health time bomb is ticking in Harare and Chitungwiza as sewage streams continue to flow through most suburbs despite efforts by both councils to fix sewer lines.A survey by the Daily News on Sunday...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2018

MINING & RETAIL

Mining companies exempted from paying wage increment

THIRTY mining companies have successfully applied to be exempted from paying the 2018 minimum wage increment amid viability concerns.The Chamber of Mines and the Associated Mineworkers' Union of Zimba...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 July 2018

MINING & RETAIL

Ex-TM managers take wages fight to ConCourt

THREE former TM Supermarket line managers have filed leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court challenging a Supreme Court ruling which set aside an arbitration ruling which was in their favour.Itay...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

High govt wage bill to choke economy

ZIMBABWE'S faltering economy could suffer serious fresh shocks, with civil service salaries threatening to hit a staggering 120 percent of national budget and thus endangering critical social services...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

'Low wages trigger mental cases'

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has blamed the paltry wages paid to most workers in the country for triggering a spike in mental cases.Addressing stakeholders attending the World Day for ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa's govt in wages turnaround

GOVERNMENT has made a u-turn on workers' wages, revealing that it now supports productivity-based pay.In a speech read on her behalf at an Employers' Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz) human resources ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 March 2018

MINING & RETAIL

Mining firms seek minimum wage pay exemption

SEVERAL mining companies have applied to be exempted from paying the 2018 minimum wage increment for the sector agreed by the Chamber of Mines and the Associated Mineworkers' Union of Zimbabwe (Amwuz)...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

ZESA blames wage dispute on low tariffs

DEBT-RIDDEN Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority Holdings (ZESA) says it has not had a tariff increase in the past seven years, a situation it says has affected its capacity to adjust workers' salari...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 February 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Dry spell threatens to scuttle wage negotiations

THE dry spell currently being experienced in the country is threatening to scuttle negotiations for a wage increment for the tea sector this year, businessdigest has learnt.The spell has prompted fear...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

MINING & RETAIL

Miners to negotiate wage rise

THE Chamber of Mines and the Associated Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe (Amwuz) are set to meet on Thursday next week to discuss the wage increment for next year, businessdigest has learnt.The negotia...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 December 2017

ZIMBABWE

Mugabe's govt in wage bill headache

Government is still struggling to contain its wage bill as it emerged that this expenditure accounted for 86 percent of its overheads in the first month of the year.President Robert Mugabe's administr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2017

ZIMBABWE

World Bank urges Zim to slash public sector wage bill

DailyNews Deputy Business Editor, Ndakaziva Majaka, talks to World Bank's (WB) outgoing country manager, Camille Nuamah, whose tour of duty ran from June 2014.NUamah will be succeeded by WB's sector m...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2017

AFRICA BUSINESS

SA mine union boss decries "apartheid" wage system

The newly elected head of South Africa's biggest mine union said on Sunday that his members were still being paid "apartheid" wages, signaling a hard line ahead of gold sector wage talks due to start ...

By Reuters | Published: 22 June 2015

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Bata employees win wage increment case

Bata Shoe Company employees yesterday left the Supreme Court on cloud nine after their employer's appeal against an order to award a wage increase was thrown out by the judges of appeal. The court, co...

By newsday | Published: 17 February 2015

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Soft drink wage dispute reaches deadlock

The wage dispute between the soft drink manufacturing employees union and manufacturing employers association has reached a deadlock on the issue of wage increase forcing the two parties to approach t...

By Tinashe Makichi | Published: 21 July 2014

OPINION

SA's wage rise a sneaky win for Zimbabwe

After what seemed like a lifetime, South Africa's Association of Mine workers and Construction Unions successfully negotiated a settlement with employers promising to triple entry level mining wages o...

By Bhekinkosi Ngubeni | Published: 30 June 2014

MINING & RETAIL

Mine workers get 5% wage increase

THE Chamber of Mines and the Associated Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe (Amwuz) have agreed a 5% increase in wages for 2014, ending protracted wage negotiations of more than six months.The agreement is...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 May 2014

POLITICS

'No cuts to public sector wage bill,' says Chinamasa

Zimbabwe is not prepared to slash its public sector wage bill to meet debt-reduction plans agreed with the IMF because it will involve too many job cuts, the finance minister said on Wednesday.The Int...

By Reuters | Published: 26 March 2014

MINING & RETAIL

Mines workers salary negotiations stall

THE Associated Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe (AMWUZ) and the Chamber of Mines have reached a deadlock in the 2014 wage negotiations after the chamber refused to award a Poverty Datum Line- linked in...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 March 2014

MINING & RETAIL

Chamber of mines negotiate on wages

Wage negotiations between the Chamber of Mines and the Associated Mineworkers Union of Zimbabwe will today resume amid indications both parties are determined to reach an agreement to finally break th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 February 2014

MINING & RETAIL

Mine workers wage demand may affect other economic sectors

THE Associated Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe (AMWUZ) is demanding wages linked to the poverty datum line (PDL) in its 2014 collective bargaining negotiations with the Chamber of Mines. AMWUZ presiden...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 December 2013

AFRICA BUSINESS

Gold wage hikes cost SA gold sector R1.5bn

Johannesburg -The Chamber of Mines said on Wednesday that wage settlements in the gold sector would amount to R1.5bn in extra costs for companies over the next 12 months.Companies and unions agreed to...

By Reuters | Published: 11 September 2013
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