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Zimbabwe government, labor and business to soon agree on social contract
Jonga Kandemiiri, Voice of America (VOA)
May 21, 2007

http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/Zimbabwe/2007-05-21-voa50.cfm

After previous stalled attempts, Zimbabwe's three social partners in the Tripartite Negotiating Forum, met in Harare Monday, to finalize the three key protocols which form the core of the social contract, namely the Incomes and Prices Stabilization, the Restoration of Production Viability, and the Foreign Currency Mobilization. However, the latter could not be discussed as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe did not send a representative.

Last week, the partners that make up the TNF- labor, represented by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, business, represented by the Employers Confederation of Zimbabwe, and the government - failed to agree on an article on the Incomes and Prices Stabilization Protocol, which labor insisted on before all the other protocols could be discussed.

But Director John Mufukare of the Employers Confederation of Zimbabwe, told reporter Jonga Kandemiiri of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe, that business accepts that it must pay living wages, and is now looking at how to sustain it.

Labor representative Godfrey Kanyenze told VOA that for industries to be viable, there is need to address the issue of good governance and the political risk factor.

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