Statutory Instrument 5 of 2022

Collective Bargaining Agreement: Agricultural Industry: Sugarcane Sector

IT is hereby notified that the Minister of Public Service, Labour  and Social Welfare has, in terms of section 80(1) of the Labour

Act[Chapter 28:01], approved the publication of the Collective  Bargaining Agreement set out in the Schedule which was registered in terms of section 79 of the Act [Chapter 28:01].

SCHEDULE

NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT COUNCIL FOR THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT: AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY

(SUGARCANE SECTOR)

 Made and entered in accordance with the Labour Act [Chapter 28:01], as amended from time to time, between the Zimbabwe Sugarcane Employers Organisation (ZSEO), Zimbabwe Agricultural Employers Organisation (ZAEO), Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (ZCFU), Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) and Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) (herein referred to as “the employer parties” or “the employers’ organisations”), of the one part, and the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers’ Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ) and Horticulture, General Agriculture and Plantation Workers’ Union of Zimbabwe (HGAPWUZ) (herein referred to as the “the employee parties” or “the trade unions”), of the other part.

The employer parties and the employee parties, being parties to the National Employment Council for the Agricultural Industry in Zimbabwe, have agreed on the following minimum wages effective from 1st October, 2021: