GOVERNMENT has approved amendments to fixed-term contracts for employees in the tourism industry to enable them to be classified as permanent workers upon expiry of four years of continuous service.
BY STAFF REPORTER
Statutory Instrument (SI) 54 of 2016 states: “Section 6 of SI 124 of 2013 is hereby amended by the addition of section 6(2) (c) which shall read continuous service shall be deemed to be broken only by death, resignation, retirement or discharge of the employee concerned”.
The amendments were made in the Collective Bargaining Agreement for the Tourism Industry under the National Employment Council for the Tourism Industry.
The amendments were reached in accordance with a number of employment councils and associations in the tourism industry.
These include Employers’ Association for Tours and Safari Operators and Boating Association of Zimbabwe for the Tourism Industry referred to as employers or employers’ organisation which formed one party.
The other party was represented by the National Museums, Monuments, Travel, Tourism, Game Parks and Wildlife Workers’ Union of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Tourism and Allied Workers’ Union referred to as employees or trade unions.
This Collective Bargaining Agreement for the Tourism Industry will have been deemed to go into effect as at December 16, 2015.
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Recently, Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions secretary-general Japhet Moyo said amendments like these would only be worthwhile if each sector is given its own considerations.
