Cold Storage Company managers threaten to take Boustead Beef Zimbabwe to Labour Court

SPECIAL CAVEATS TO THIS NOTICE

1. a) Our understanding of the country’s Labour laws is that since our employment contracts are yet to be transferred to Boustead Beef Zimbabwe, our salaries, benefits and conditions of service should be the same as those we enjoyed in CSC, or better.
2. b) We should also have a platform for regular salary reviews necessitated by the challenges being faced in the current economic environment.
3. c) It should be noted that our former Senior Managers who should be answerable for Policy issues have since been retired by Boustead Beef Zimbabwe making it difficult for the remaining undersigned employees to provide the Policy documents which we firmly believe were all surrendered in good faith to Boustead Beef. However the Policy documents that we have submitted, when read together with our Employment contracts, as well as Conditions of Service, adequately support our demand for the long outstanding allowances.

CONCLUSION

Since the Board was dissolved by the parent Ministry, and in light of the fact that Boustead Beef Zimbabwe has stressed that we are on secondment from the defunct CSC, and yet our rights continue to be trampled upon with impunity, we also copy this letter to the Honourable Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement to make him aware of our unfortunate and painful situation and assist us as he is the underwriter of the Concession Agreement and the custodian and Appointing Authority of the Cold Storage Commission.

We hope Boustead Beef Zimbabwe will reflect on these issues soberly and with a conscience and resolve those urgently to bring an end to the needless pain and suffering our families are going through. We should be celebrating the coming of an Investor into CSC not wallowing in hardships and stress.

We also believe that we have cooperated fully and eagerly with the provision of all institutional memory and documentation to Boustead Beef Zimbabwe and shall continue doing so willingly should the various abattoir plants and ranches reopen.

However as former managers of the defunct Cold Storage Company Limited, we should not be held accountable and/or persecuted for institutional memory that was lost embedded in the minds of the retired managers. While we confirm that all essential documentation was surrendered to Boustead Beef Zimbabwe, we can however not be held responsible for any mishaps that may occur due to the lack of comprehension of that information and documentation on the part of Boustead Beef Zimbabwe.

For, and on behalf of the undersigned managerial-graded employees of the former CSC, on secondment to Boustead Beef Zimbabwe

CC:

– Director Human Resources, Boustead Beef Zimbabwe – Mrs H. Sibanda.

– The Honourable Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement – Retired Air

Marshall Honourable P. Shiri.

– Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement.

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