By GRACE CHAILE-LESOETSAFORMER middle management employees of Cavmont Bank Limited have sued their former employer for removing them from the payroll before paying them their full benefits.John Mwansa Kalinde and 40 others have argued that the bank’s move was contrary to the current statutory law on payment of redundancy benefits.The former employees want the Lusaka High Court to order that the they have accrued the right to be paid the redundancy package under Clause N (I) of the applicable 2005 local management conditions of service which could not be unilaterally taken away from them.They are also seeking a declaration that the bank’s imposition upon them of a redundancy package of two months’ pay for each year served under the new employment code , amounted to a unilateral variation of Clause N.(I) of the applicable management conditions of service and therefore, null and void.Mr Kalinde and others want the court to declare that the bank was […]
Cavmont Bank ex-employees sue over benefits
