Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:08:43 +0000 CASUALISATION has remained rampant in Zambia despite the amendment to the Labour Act on casualisation, Zambia Union of Financial Institutions and Allied Workers (ZUFIAW) union president Ackim Mweemba has revealed. Speaking in an interview in Ndola, Mr. Mweemba charged that workers in the country including those in the financial sector had continued to receive a raw deal from employers. Mr Mweemba disclosed that companies in the private sector had since improvised ways of ducking the labour instruments by engaging human resources practitioners in devising ways to topple rules created to protect employees. “The labour movement has not achieved much in its quest to better conditions of employees in the country because the key employers keep on shifting the goal post by conducting seminars for human resources practitioners of companies to find ways to duck labour instruments Government has put in place. The amended labour laws protect the workers but companies, particularly in the private […]
