The Zambia Federation of Employers has welcomed governments’ decision to enact the employment Act of 2015 which has effectively made casualization illegal in the country.
In an interview, ZFE Executive Director Harrington Chibanda is however concerned if at all the new law has addressed concerns such as employers seeking approval from relevant authorities before dismissing workers.
Government yesterday announced that President Edgar Lungu has signed into law, the employment Act Number 15 of 2015 to ensure that casualization is brought to end in Zambia.
At present, one is luck to get casual employment or piece work in Zambia. How can you ban something that is not there you fools. Talk about creating employment that you promised people. If I am going to run a project for 6 months, would I employ people on permanent basis?
I like lungu very much but some times he irritates me with some of his pronouncements. because talking of casualization does he even understand what casualization is all about…He should have at list explained the type of casuals he was referring to,coz all of us are more like casuals despite being on 1year or 2years contracts our jobs are not secured, instead he should have advised the employers to put their workers on permanent, so that they can be working freely knowing that there is security on their jobs…………………
All jobs are gone even the so called permanent ones,so what are these guys (Lungu and Chibanda) talking about. It is seems like when Lungu runs out things to do he just signing some random documents without thinking.
government workers are suffering mwebantu .a lady just retired last month was working in this pf govnt and went with a money not even enough to buy a second hand car after working for more than 25 years.she was paid 18ooo imagine.pf removed the long service bonus as a result workers retire with just leave days payment.imagine this evil govt.
They will be more job loses. Councils and ZESCO have more casual workers.
Minning firms have stopped employing what are they going today.
The government should have introduced pension scheme for contractors.