120 000 workers have gone unpaid in 3 years - ZCTU Report

A report titled “Working Without Pay, Wage Theft in Zimbabwe” by the research division of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has revealed a lot of disturbing facts about the work environment in Zimbabwe. The research division is called the Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ)
According to the 36-page report:

– at least 120 000 workers across the country worked without pay between 2015 and last year.

– 40 000 workers had gone for three years without pay

– 80 000 had not received wages on time.

-350 000 formally employed workers have sunk into abject poverty

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– Executives are earning up to 769 times more than shop floor workers.

– 22 778 workers in 20 urban local authorities had not received their salaries

-12 000 workers were not being paid in the agricultural sector

-7 500 workers were not being paid in the security sector

-7 500 workers were not being paid in the automotive indutry

LEDRIZ said bosses in the private sector were receiving between US$10 000 and US$21 000 per month during the review period, in contrast to US$26 for the lowest paid formal sector worker, 20 577 lower than the highest paid CEO.

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