Tel One workers shocked at court decision-(08-02-07

a severance package is a paltry Z$8,000.
The Supreme Court last week handed down the final judgement in a case that had dragged on in the Labour Court, then the High Court, over the past three years.
Tel*One has started evicting workers from company houses in Plumtree, Kadoma and many other areas.
Desperate workers and their families were shuttling from one NGO to another and also recently sought an audience with minister of Transport and Communication, Chris Mushowe to help them win back their jobs.
Communications and Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe secretary general Ronald Musiwokuwaya was quoted in a labour newsletter here saying it was disgusting for a big enterprise such as Tel*One to offer such pathetic amounts as retrenchment packages to employees who had served the company for several years.
“The ruling by the Supreme Court was a big disappointment especially coming from a judge with a jewel of responsibilities,” Musiwokuwaya was quoted. “(Chief Justice Godfrey) Chidyausiku is an employer and an employee at the same, his masters are politicians who also happen to be employers and his judgements are skewed towards capitalist tendencies as in this one.”
Musikowaya further slammed the judgment calling it “retrogressive” and at tangent with the national goals of poverty reduction.
“It is not just the workers who are in a fix but a lot of people will suffer as most people were taking care of their extended families,” Musiwokuwaya said.