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By Daniel Chege | January 17th 2021 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300
Vegpro Company employees. [Courtesy]
A union has moved to court to challenge the dismissal of 970 workers from a flower company in Naivasha.
The Kenya Export Floriculture, Horticulture and Allied Workers Union has sued Vegpro Company Limited, a floriculture and horticulture growing and exporting company, which owns Delamere Pivots and Gorge Farm, where the sacked employees worked.
In the suit before Employment and Labour Relations Court Judge Hellen Wasilwa, the union wants the company s action of dismissing the staff to be declared unprocedural, unfair and wrongful. The court be pleased to order the reinstatement of the employees to their former respective employment status from June 4, 2019 without loss of all benefits,” reads the suit.
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The Ministry of Labour and Social Security has warned that the Consolidated Miners and Allied Workers Union of Zambia (CMAWUZ) faces deregistration in the next three months for willful violations of the Labour Act and failure to comply with the constitutional requirements of the Union.
Labour Commissioner, Givens Muntengwa said he has since given CMAWUZ a three months’ notice in line with section 12 of the Industrial and Labour Relations Act to show cause why the union should not be deregistered.
Mr Mutengwa, explained in a press statement issued to ZANIS in Lusaka today, that the union has failed to hold a quadrennial conference and fill up vacant positions as espoused by the Union’s constitution despite several reminders from the Labour Commissioner’s office.
SABC Unions to start striking from next week Updated
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Unions at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) are set to embark on another strike at the public broadcaster over the ongoing section 189 process.
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The Communication Workers Union (CWU) and the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media & Allied Workers Union (BEMAWU) met on Wednesday and decided to take to the streets.
The SABC is currently in the process of retrenchments that will affect more than 300 employees.
CWU spokesperson, Aubrey Tshabalaba, says the unions have not received any feedback from the SABC Board, over concerns that additional workers are now also receiving redundancy notices.
The Morton Salt Plant on Inagua.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Morton Salt said last night that after a comprehensive evaluation of operating efficiency and production levels at its Inagua facility, it was “forced” to make 11 positions redundant in order to sustain the company’s long-term viability, with the union representing the company’s line staff crying foul over the move.
Jennifer Brown, president of the Bahamas Industrial Manufacturers and Allied Workers Union (BIMAWU), which represents more than 100 of the salt manufacturer’s line staff, told
Eyewitness News the union was informed by management of Morton Bahamas last Friday that 11 positions were being made redundant, with 10 union members being affected.