The government has stopped the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) from sacking 1 600 workers. The parastatal is overstaffed by over 5 000 workers, which has been straining the salary and wage bills. However, the government refused to sign off on the propopsal
A governmentt official who spoke to the Financial Gazette said:
Government has rejected a proposal by ZETDC to undertake a redundancy exercise.
Instead, we said these (workers) should be re-deployed to other departments within ZETDC
However, ZETDC refuted the retrenchmet claims. ZESA’s acting spokesperson, Shepherd Mandizvidza said:
The power utility has not laid off any of its employees as they still have a role to play in the organisation. ZETDC is a responsible corporate citizen and when there is need for the organisation to streamline its operations accordingly, relevant consultations are done with the shareholder and all stakeholders,
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