{"id":244490,"date":"2026-09-16T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-tobacco-companies-ordered-to-pay-gratuity-to-seasonal-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:00:09","slug":"zimbabwe-tobacco-companies-ordered-to-pay-gratuity-to-seasonal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-tobacco-companies-ordered-to-pay-gratuity-to-seasonal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Tobacco Companies Ordered to Pay Gratuity to Seasonal Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">THE National Employment Council (NEC) for the Tobacco Industry has ordered employers to pay gratuity to seasonal employees who have served for three consecutive years, in a move aimed at plugging long-standing loopholes in the sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The latest Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) comes as a blow to unscrupulous employers in the miscellaneous tobacco sector, covering auction floors, grading and processing, who have reportedly been offering employment contracts as short as two weeks or one month&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609150264.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE National Employment Council (NEC) for the Tobacco Industry has ordered employers to pay gratuity to seasonal employees who have served for three consecutive years, in a move aimed at plugging long-standing loopholes in the sector. The latest Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) comes as a blow to unscrupulous employers in the miscellaneous tobacco sector, covering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,9704,55425,257,12270,9105,34772,254,4456,6498,4686,421],"class_list":["post-244490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-companies","tag-gratuity","tag-news","tag-ordered","tag-pay","tag-seasonal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tobacco","tag-workers","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}