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| Labour disputes on the rise |
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| Written by Staff reporter |
| Wednesday, 21 October 2009 10:54 |
 BULAWAYO - Incidents of salary negotiations reaching a deadlock are becoming increasingly common, resulting in workers staging industrial action in order for their demands to be met. (Pictured: Industrial area)
Workers with leading companies in the city: National Blankets, Nimr and Chapman, Radiator and Tinning, Natpack and Merlin have all embarked in some of form of industrial action. Bulawayo-based labour consultant, Ndumiso Sibanda, said the conversion of two multiple currencies had seen workers granted unreasonably high salaries that companies could hardly afford to pay. He said demands by the union for higher salary increments would not be possible given the environment that the country finds itself in. “Gone are the days when employees could be given allowances that where at times higher than their salaries,” he said. Sibanda said companies were failing to meet the minimum salaries set by various NECs as a result of low capacity utilisation, liquidity challenges adding that they were still trying to fully recover. Sibanda said the labour disputes resulted from the lack of proper consultation between employers and employees at the time of currency conversion and the effects were beginning to come out. |
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