Zimbabwe: Labour Court Upholds Teacher’s Award, Slams Watershed College in Contract Dispute

The Labour Court has dismissed an appeal by Watershed College Trust against an arbitral award in favour of a former probationary teacher, ruling that the institution “clearly aprobated and reprobated” its contractual obligations and acted unlawfully by issuing notice of termination after the expiration of the probation period.

In a judgment delivered by Justice Samuel Kudya, the court found that while the arbitrator erred in concluding that the teacher, Jenipha Madziva, had become a permanent…