BY JAMES MUTASA

Giran Bulk Logistics Services Private Limited is up in arms with its employees as a result of toying around with employees’ terminal benefits which includes unpaid salaries, notice pay, compensation for loss of employment, gratuity and leave days among other statutes requirements.

The Worker has it on good authority that Giran Logistics Services Private Limited which specializes in transportation of bulk fuel, petrochemicals and dry cargo has verbally terminated contracts of employment of more than 15 employees alleging that the move has been necessitated by the untimely death of the Managing Director, Gift Gova.

According to one of the affected employees who spoke to The Worker Enock Masuku, 15 employees including truck drivers thronged the company premises demanding to be paid their unpaid salaries and other terminal benefits.

‘We were told by Ranga Gova that the following the death of the then General manager Gova, Giran Bulk could no longer sustain employees and he intends to shut down the company, hence the need to lay off employees.’

‘I was employed by Giran in 2016 as a truck driver meaning that l have served the employer for 8 years and terminating my contract of employment without paying terminal benefits is an  unfair labour practice,’ he added.

Masuku said that one Ranga Gova who took over from Gova paid employees who had gathered at the company premises US$150 each as part of their unpaid salaries for the month of August, September and October stating that the remaining balance would be paid as and when funds permit.

‘It is an unfair labour practice to lay off employees who have served a company for a long period of time and just pay them their unpaid salaries. In essence this is retrenchment and we urge the employer to follow the retrenchment process,’ the Zimbabwe Haulage Truck Drivers Union said.

Efforts to get a comment from Gova were in vain until the time of publication.