Collective Bargaining Agreement: Mining Industry

📅 Published: August 15, 2025

📰 Source: miningzimbabwe

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The provisions of this agreement shall replace the whole of the provisions of the agreement published in Statutory Instrument 598 of 1981 (Mineworkers) and the agreement published in Statutory Instrument 7 of 1982 (Staff Employees), including all amendments and extensions of these agreements. 1 Any expression used herein which is defined in the Act shall have the same meaning as in the Act, unless further defined herein. “basic earnings”means wages or salaries earned by an employee, but does not include bonuses, allowances, commissions, or overtime payment or any other payment in kind or other like benefits, unless such inclusion is authorized by the Council; “category”means a category of employment prescribed in subclause (5) of clauseten; “certificate of competency”in relation to category 3 means a certificate issued by the Ministry of Labour, Manpower Planning and Social Welfare recognizing the holder as a skilled worker in a designated trade; “certificate of registration”means a certificate issued by the Council in terms of clausetwelveof this agreement, or any certificate of competency issued under any previous Industrial Agreement: Mining Industry (Mineworkers) or determination; “charge-hand”means an employee appointed as such by an employer; ” contract worker ”means an employee who is engaged for a period of fixed duration or for the performance of a specific task which excludes normal production underground ; [inserted by SI 109/93 with effect from the 26th February,1993] ” continuous service ”means the total period of an employee’s unbroken service— (b) with any group of employers controlled throughout by the same head office; or (c) on any 1 mine, irrespective of any change of ownership of such Mine; or (d) on any group of mines controlled throughout by the same head office, irrespective of any change ownership in such group; from the commencement of such period to its termination, whether by death, resignation, retirement or discharge: Provided that an employee whose employment is terminated and who is re-engaged by the same employer or group of employers, or on the same mine or group of mines, within 3 months of such termination, shall be deemed not to have broken his service; “council”means the National Employment Council for Mining Industry; “direct supervision”means supervision continuously exercised within sight or sound of the work being supervised; “emergency”means a situation in which life or property is in danger, or in which a serious stoppage in production caused by unforeseen events has occurred, or is about to occur;. 🔗

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