Zimbabwe: NRZ Struggles to Trim Workforce

31 January 2012

THE National Railways of Zimbabwe, which is reeling from serious cash flow problems, has a bloated workforce of more than 8 000 and is facing challenges to streamline the numbers. This makes the parastatal one of the country's biggest employers after the civil service.

NRZ acting director of marketing (Bulawayo) Mrs Elector Mafunga told participants at a Competition and Tariff Commission/World Bank workshop in Vumba recently that legal implications prevented them from retrenching.

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