Open AccessTrade Unionism and State Laws in Independent Zimbabwe: Is Legislation Promotive or Inhibitive
Author(s) -
Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cross current international journal of economics, management and media studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2663-2462
DOI - 10.36344/ccijemms.2019.v01i02.002
Subject(s) - legislation , conciliation , independence (probability theory) , institutionalisation , state (computer science) , power (physics) , collective bargaining , settlement (finance) , law , business , political science , labour economics , economics , market economy , payment , finance , arbitration , statistics , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , mathematics , algorithm
Historically, governments have always found ‘lawful’ ways to regulate the power of trade unions. The institutionalisation of the Industrial Conciliation Act propagated in 1934 and successively amended in 1960, and labour legislations that were enacted at independence in 1980 and 1981, and later on amalgamated into the comprehensive Labour Relations Act of 1985, all serve as clear demonstration of such measures. The earliest steps to establish and regulate a labour market were the founding of Provincial Labour Bureaux in 1895 and the Rhodesia Native Labour Bureau (RNLB) of 1903. These institutions were labour procurement agencies whose roles were supported by legislations