Zimbabwe Government Orders Kingstons to Fire Workers
DESPITE government giving the impression it is against job cuts on Wednesday it ordered struggling Kingstons Holdings Ltd — a stationery group 51% owned by the government — to immediately lay off workers resulting in the dismissal that day of 42 workers using the July 17 Supreme Court ruling allowing employers to terminate contracts on […]
Zimbabwe Labour Bill – Parliament Recalled
Parliament is expected to pass the Labour Amendment Bill next week after President Mugabe summoned parliamentarians from their recess to consider amendments to the Labour Act. The Bill is expected to amend the Labour Act and remove common law provisions that have been used by employers to unilaterally dismiss thousands of workers on notice, sending […]
Mismatch Between Local Employability and Imported Labour Recommendations Submitted – Mauritius
The High Level Ministerial Committee set up under the Chairmanship of the Acting Prime Minister, Minister of Tourism and External Communications, Mr. Xavier Duval, to address the mismatch between local employability and imported labour has submitted its recommendations to the Government. The Committee has examined, among others, the unemployment situation, the increasing number of qualified […]
‘Get Rich Quick’ With Pink Sapphires – For Some
In the early 1990s, only 40 people lived in Ilakaka, a sleepy village off the beaten path in south-west Madagascar more than 700km from Antananarivo, the capital of the rugged Indian Ocean island. The government took little interest in the village; it was no more than a blip on the map. But in 1998 the […]
Grim Prognosis for War-Torn Libya
Oil-rich Libya faces an array of daunting challenges in dealing with the legacies of Muammar Qaddafi’s 42 years in power, not least the dysfunctional labour sector he left behind. Add to this the damage done to the country’s economic infrastructure during the revolution that ousted Mr Qaddafi in 2011, and the impact of the civil […]
Zim Govt Signed Deals to Export Graduates
Government is inviting all those who graduated from tertiary colleges since 1980 to forward their names for possible employment in several African countries with which it has signed agreements for labour exportation. Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Deputy Minister Dr Godfrey Gandawa said yesterday that a database of the graduates was being […]
Zambia Railways Strikes Over Terminal Benefits
Zambia Railways Limited workers yesterday staged a strike in protest against non-payment of terminal benefits that fell due after government’s cancellation of RSZ’s concession. Operations were grounded, leaving passengers stranded. The workers want government to pay them their Railway Systems of Zambia terminal benefits, amounting to about K27 million, which should have been paid at […]
Nigeria Human Trafficking ‘Top Priority’, Says Commissioner
Clamping down on the problem of Nigerians being trafficked to the UK is a main priority, the first independent anti-slavery commissioner says. Kevin Hyland told the BBC it was “deeply concerning” that hundreds of Nigerians were brought in every year for prostitution or forced labour. Mr Hyland said the problem of such exploitation was “enormous”. […]
Ghana using child labour in mines
Ghana’s mining industry has been benefiting from child labour in unlicensed mines, Human Rights Watch has said, after conducting field observations in the in the Western, Central and Ashanti Regions. It is estimated that thousands of children, mostly between the ages of 15 and 17, have been working in perilous conditions pulling ore out of […]
