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Employers will meet this month meet at a production-based remuneration workshop to agree on the position to take for the 2014 Collective Bargaining Agreement exercise. The workshop, which is being organised by the Employers’ Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz), will be held from 15 to 17 July in Kariba.
Emcoz executive director Mr John Mufukare told Business Chronicle that decision makers in the labour market were expected to attend the forthcoming event, which was relevant in trying to align remuneration to productivity.
“As an employer representative organisation we have done a research in Zimbabwe and within Sadc whose findings point to productivity-based remuneration being the only sustainable way to go.
“This workshop is an opportunity for us to discuss these findings and have your input so that we come up with a position as industry which we will use in our CBA for November 2013,” he said.
Mr Mufukare said employers have long realised that under the present operating environment, the only sustainable growth strategy was productivity-based remuneration. Over the past two years, Emcoz has conducted a number of seminars clarifying the concept and getting employers’ commitment.
With technical assistance from the International Labour Organisation, Emcoz has taken the project to the next level by commissioning a study to investigate the advantages of the concept from evidence based, scientifically rigorous approach.
Mr Mufukare said the employers’ body had now gathered incontrovertible evidence on the efficacy of productivity based remuneration.
“This evidence must now be presented to employers and workers with a view to adopting productivity-based remuneration for the 2014 round of Collective Bargaining Negotiations,” he said.
The objectives of the upcoming business event, he said among others was to compare productivity in Zimbabwe to the rest of Sadc, the legal framework in the country in relation to that of the region as well as comparing the competitiveness of Zimbabwe to Sadc.
Speakers at the workshop include an economist, Mr John Robertson, who will present a paper on the economic overview while the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president Mr George Nkiwane would speak on productivity-based remuneration from the employee perspective.
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