ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION /UNZA MANAGEMENT CAUSED THE UNZA DEMONSTRATIONS Dear Editor, FOLLOWING our meetings with demonstrating unions at the University of Zambia (UNZA), the Economic Freedom Fighters-EFF compiled this report: The acting Minister of Education Mr. Elvis Nkandu did not just usurp the powers of the Minister of Labour but committed an illegality when he endorsed the move by UNZA management to unilaterally alter workers’ conditions of service without consensus with the workers’ unions:; UNZAPROSU, UNZAWU, UNZALAWU. That action is ultra vires section (55)(1) (c) of the Employment Code Act, 2019 of The Laws of Zambia which guides that, “ an employer is considered to have terminated a contract of employment of an employee by reason of redundancy if the termination is wholly or in part due to an adverse alteration of the employee’s conditions of service which the employee has not consented to.” The fundamental condition of service that the […]
ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION /UNZA MANAGEMENT CAUSED THE UNZA DEMONSTRATIONS
