Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:29:10 +0000 By VIOLET TEMBO THE Supreme Court sitting in Ndola has dismissed with costs an appeal by Lumwana Mining Company Limited to dismiss 71 workers for allegedly circulating a pornographic video. In February 2014 the Ndola High Court ruled in favour of the workers who were dismissed by the company in relation to an email and a video titled ‘’Poor Boy’’ which was allegedly shared among 71 employees on the appellant’s internet infrastructure. Lumwana then appealed to the Supreme Court to upset the lower court judgment But sitting in Ndola recently, Supreme Court judges Rhodah Kaoma, Michael Musonda and Chief Justice Ireen Mambilima dismissed the appeal with costs. In dismissing the appeal, the Supreme Court ruled that Lumwana mine management should have stated whether the seriousness of the offence was the receiving or forwarding or the distribution of pornographic, sexually explicit material by use of the company IT […]
