Zimbabwe: Zim Labour Situation Unique - ILO

interview

THE labour landscape is one of the most depressed fraternities in the country with a fast shrinking base which is ejecting workers by the thousands since the advent of the economic meltdown in Zimbabwe more than a decade ago. The Financial Gazette (FG) interviewed the Harare country office of the International Labour Organization (ILO), as one of the key organizations working with various labour stakeholders to find out what specific interventions they had on the ground to tackle the myriad of labour challenges in the country; how many Zimbabweans were benefitting from their programmes and what relationship existed between them and particular labour outfits; among other things. Below are excerpts from that interview.

FG: As an organization that is heavily invested in labour, what is your take of the labour situation in Zimbabwe (if you could highlight both pluses and minuses)? How does the Zimbabwe labour landscape compare to other countries that you are in?

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