MDC Renewal has accused the government of being reluctant to stop the ongoing job cuts spurred by a Supreme Court ruling giving employers the nod to terminate contracts on three months’ notice saying it has all the legal arsenal at its disposal.
BY IVAN NDLOVU
Jacob Mafume, the MDC Renewal spokesperson told journalists in Gweru that government officials were delaying in their response to the ruling because they ran businesses that needed to shed workers.
“What was needed was an urgent statutory instrument which the Ministry of Labour is empowered under the Labour Act to use,” he said yesterday.
“This (mass job losses) is what happens when you give licences in every business sector to politicians, the Cabinet was conflicted.
“They are both government and the employers, that is why they are pretending not to understand what they need to do because they are quickly firing people. After they have fired people, they will then sit down and discuss how they can protect the people from the employers.”
Mafume said it did not make sense for the government to pretend that it was powerless yet it recently used statutory instruments to stop the attachment of PSMI property over debts and sponsored the Debt Assumption Bill to rescue the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
MDC Renewal international relations secretary, Gorden Moyo said the government was “unconcerned” about people’s plight.
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“All we see is a government that is collecting fees from people,” he said.
“Right now they are talking about urban toll-gates just to milk the dry cow”.
Moyo said their party was working on an economic blueprint that would help resuscitate the country’s fortunes in the global market, which will be discussed at the national convention from August 21 to 23.
“We are not just cry-babies, we are not professional mourners, we have the alternatives and we realise that this government has no idea at all on how to redress the issues of this economy” Moyo said.
