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GOVERNMENT and stakeholders in the labour market will next month meet during the 2014 Collective Bargaining Summit to discuss adoption of a performance-based remuneration system by employers in the country. Employers Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz) executive director Mr John Mufukare told Business Chronicle on the sidelines of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) annual congress on Wednesday that the summit would focus on adopting strategies that will foster sustainable survival of companies.
The summit will be held in Victoria Falls from 20 to 22 November. “In the CZI manufacturing survey report released last week, you will recall that it was highlighted that capacity utilisation in industry was not competitive because the labour market is not performing.
“As a result, we are in the process of organising the 2014 Collective Bargaining Summit where we will have four different points of view from the organised labour, Emcoz, Government and representatives from all the National Employment Councils.
“We will look at how we make the labour market perform,” he said.
Due to operational constraints facing industries, capacity utilisation in the manufacturing sector has remained uncompetitive forcing some companies to scale-down or shut down.
Mr Mufukare said the objective of the summit was to come up with a consensus that was good for the country. In the past, he said employers and labour have spent a lot of meaningful time arguing on remuneration issues.
“During the summit, we will go to the basics to say this is what we have grown and thus we will eat what we will have grown. We expect during the summit to put aside all our partisan jackets and come up with one agreed position that is good for the Zimbabwe,” he said.
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