{"id":249058,"date":"2026-11-04T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-government-warns-trade-unions-over-compliance\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:00:08","slug":"zimbabwe-government-warns-trade-unions-over-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-government-warns-trade-unions-over-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Government Warns Trade Unions Over Compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The government has warned that it will suspend trade unions that fail to comply with labour laws after a verification exercise found that seven of the 38 affiliates of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) were not compliant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Deputy Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Advocate Mercy Dinha said the government had deferred action against non-compliant unions to avoid disrupting the ZCTU&#8217;s 10th Elective National Conference held from 30 to 31 October 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">However, she warned&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611040363.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 government has warned that it will suspend trade unions that fail to comply with labour laws after a verification exercise found that seven of the 38 affiliates of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) were not compliant. Deputy Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Advocate Mercy Dinha said the government had [&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":[258,256,12426,6427,257,254,5979,8162,6853,4686,421],"class_list":["post-249058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-compliance","tag-government","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade","tag-unions","tag-warns","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249058","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=249058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249058\/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=249058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}