GOVERNMENT has warned employers against waiting for the expiry of a collective agreement before embarking on negotiations for new salaries and conditions of service because this is a recipe for industrial unrest.
Minister of Labour and Social Security, Ronald Mukuma, said yesterday that Government was concerned that most industrial unrest in the country occurred at organisations where directors and managers were knowledgeable about existing labour laws.
He was speaking at the official opening of the 10th Zambia Institute of Human Resources and Management annual convention at Cresta Golf view Hotel in Lusaka.
Mr Mukuma said the Zambia Institute of Human Resources and Management should provide leadership to its members by ensuring that there was adherence to labour laws.
In a speech read for him by Labour permanent secretary, Ngosa Chisupa, the minister called for dialogue between employers and employees to avoid industrial unrest in the country.
Mr Mukuma said dialogue should be promoted between employers and employees for the benefit of the country.
He said work stoppages were retrogressive to the economic development of the country.
“Government wants to see a situation where dialogue is encouraged between employers and employees, because sometimes the industrial unrest the country experiences is as a result of failure to dialogue between management and workers,†he said.
And Mr Mukuma revealed that Government would introduce a number of legal instruments, which would include the attestation of the terms and conditions of employment, especially for companies that do not conduct collective bargaining.
Mr Mukuma said the proposed instruments would require employers to submit terms and conditions of service to the ministry to ensure there was compliance with key provisions of the labour law.
“By Friday this week, we shall revoke all the expired conditions of service instruments because Government cannot accept that some employers are paying employees K120,000 per month.
That’s total abuse of human resource,†he said.
Mr Mukuma also accused some human resources practitioners of supporting casualisation of labour by engaging employees on short-term fixed contracts instead of permanent and pensionable long-term contracts.
He appealed to the institute to sensitise its members on the dangers of casual work and to support Government’s efforts towards ending the practice.
Mr Mukuma also said Government was aware that some foreign investors had continued to give a raw deal to Zambian workers without human resource managers raising the matter for fear of losing their jobs.
“I wish to remind you that the development of the nation depends on the calibre of human capital available and how these are motivated and nurtured in a manner that both management and other stakeholders like Government would appreciate,†he said.
Mr Mukuma called for routine inspections in companies to ensure that there was adherence to the provisions of the law and also to the professional code of conduct.
He said Government considers the Zambia Institute of Human Resources and Management as a key stakeholder in upholding the country’s labour laws.
Mr Mukuma also reminded the institute to continue pushing for implementation of HIV and AIDS policies in work places.
Earlier, Zambia Institute of Human Resources and Management president, Hobby Kaputa, said the institute had introduced practising certificates for members.
He said this follows the enactment of the institute’s Act number 11 of 1997.
Mr Kaputa said the aim of introducing practising certificates was to get rid of non-human resource managers that had invaded the profession.
“People involved in the practice of human resources management who do not hold certificates fully issued by the institute are in breach of the law, and all law abiding employers should not be associated with such people,†he said.
Nkana FC Soars to the top of Division 1 North League table without playing a game!!!
We have been awarded 2 goals and 3 points for a game that was abandoned because the other team pitched up at a wrong venue!!! haaaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaa!!!!
ZESCO FC, Watch out, we are surely meeting in the Barcklay Cup.
Viva Beston “QuickSilver” Chambeshi
LUSAKA – 12 October 2007 – 210 words
Zambia’s first president to fast with Jubilee campaigns
Tomorrow, Zambia’s first president Dr Kenneth Kaunda will join Jubilee USA Network and Jubilee-Zambia’s Cancel Debt Fast, which supports responsible borrowing and responsible lending.
The former first president, who has supported Jubilee movements in the past, will fast to call for a quick enactment of the Jubilee Act in the United States as well as to speed up the loan contraction reforms in Zambia. The Jubilee Act would compel the U.S. government to cancel the debts of up to 25 additional countries currently ineligible for debt cancellation, end harmful economic policy conditions, establish an audit of past lending and set more responsible lending practices for the future.
According to Jubilee USA coordinator Neil Watkins: “Dr Kaunda’s fast is an act of solidarity, which should speak to the conscience of the governments of rich countries. Many poor countries are still paying external debt, which Is as a result of both their own borrowing and in many cases, irresponsible lending decisions and policing by rich nations as well.
Currently, indebted nations spend an average of $100 million each day to service their debts  money they cannot spend on food, education, health services and other necessities. Cancellation of these debts is needed to help reach the UN Millennium Development Goal of cutting worldwide poverty in half by 2015.”
Watkins has also urged the US government and other rich countries to ensure that they put in place legal measures that will promote creditor responsibility and end illegal practices of private commercial creditors (also known as “vulture funds”), which seek to benefit from purchasing the loans of poor countries.
Muyatwa Sitali, Coordinator of Jubilee-Zambia has upheld Dr Kaunda’s long commitment to debt and social justice. Sitali says: “As Jubilee movements, we recall how in 1987 Dr. Kaunda’s government cut off the IMF Structural Adjustment Programme and they chose to pay only 10 percent of Zambia’s export earnings for debt service while allocating more resources to social economic sectors that were needed to propel growth from Zambia’s own resources. This commitment exemplifies the need for prudent debt management and it resonates with the Jubilee movements calls for prudent debt management.
For Zambia, the need for prudent management of debt resources is extremely important, especially now after the HIPC and MDRI debt relief initiatives. Zambia’s debt is steadily rising and Parliament’s participation in loan contraction continues to be marginalized.”
In July 2006, Zambia’s external debt was only US$502 million but this dramatically increased to US$1.5billion by December 2006. The concerns being shared by Dr. Kaunda form a key component of a society which should be guided by values of accountability and transparency in debt management and utilization of debt resources.
I’m very bitter that my bootlickers i dedicated to sing the PF song on LT have lamentably failed us to add to our rhetoric the expected mileage against Levy. I henceforth warn the trio: Chapi, Ba Jose and Original Pundit that you have failed me. In spite of my party’s investment in you through Henry Mtonga to orient you in our PF shushushu skills, you have failed to deliver. The party has been over infiltrated, all my MPs are frauds, Chungu our financier has been tracked all all assets frozen. The international community know as political terrorists a tag you have failed to help remove on your party. As a result, opportunities for bilateral shushushu training have been denied. So will continue with your subnormal shushushu. But my life is in danger because these *****s have failed to protect me.Should i be “Litvinenkoed†its because of my own shushushus i suspect of having sold themselves out. My blood will be on Chapi, Joze and TOP.
#1 Next time it will be ZESCO 11 Nkana 0. That is 1 goal for each player.
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Few medical students are entering the field of forensic pathology, data suggests.
The Chicago Tribune (10/11, Smith) reported, “Earning far less than other doctors, forensic pathologists are being stretched thin, driving across rural America with caseloads that exceed national guidelines.” In response to the shortage, coroners are “building or sharing morgues, forgoing some autopsies, or transporting bodies across state lines while families wait to file suits or insurance claims, or must delay peace of mind.” And, while television shows such as CSI “have glamorized the field of forensic pathology,” they have “done little to boost its numbers.” Currently, roughly “35 of the 15,000 students who enroll in medical school every year become forensic pathologists.” And, “This year, 12 of the nation’s 37 forensic pathology fellowship programs will have no students.” In Chicago’s Cook County, the “medical examiner’s office [has] only one medical student…training to become a forensic pathologist.” While “hospital pathologists can earn more than $200,000 a year performing autopsies on natural deaths, forensic pathologists can make less than $100,000 a year even though they undergo an additional year of training,” according to Dr. Joseph Prahlow, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners.
Protein may affect efficacy of chemotherapy in some breast cancer patients, research indicates.
MedPage Today (10/11, Phend) reported, “The addition of Taxol (paclitaxel) to adjuvant chemotherapy may hold little benefit for women with the most common type of lymph node positive breast cancer,” according to a study published in the Oct. 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Investigators tested HER2 positivity of stored tumor tissue blocks from 1,322 women with node-positive breast cancer.” After five years, “disease-free survival among HER2-positive women was 63 percent whether they had received the highest or lowest dose and was statistically similar between HER2-negative dose groups as well,” at 72 percent for the low dose and 69 percent for the high dose. However, “HER2-positive tumors treated with paclitaxel were 41 percent less likely to recur than those treated without” the drug, and death rates were “43 percent lower with paclitaxel.”
Science Daily (10/12) adds, “About 15 percent to 20 percent of breast cancers express HER-2, and as many as three-quarters of breast cancers are so-called estrogen-receptor-positive.”
Survey suggests that working in an office may contribute to weight gain.
The UPI (10/12) reports that “working in an office may be hard on the waistlines of nearly half of U.S. workers,” according to a survey “of more than 5,600 workers, conducted by Harris Interactive for CareerBuilder.com.” Results of the survey showed that “28 percent of workers have gained more than 10 pounds and 13 percent have gained more than 20 pounds in their current jobs.” The weight gain could be due to workers “[s]nacking at their desks and eating too much fast food,” because the “survey found that 58 percent of the workers eat out at work for lunch at least once a week, with more than 12 percent eating out five times a week for lunch.”
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Researchers identify autoantibodies that may provide lung cancer screening option.
Science Daily (10/11) reports, “An immune system protein could act as an early warning system for lung cancer,” according to a study published online in Thorax. Investigators examined “plasma samples from 50 healthy volunteers and 104 people with different types of lung cancer,” and tested them “for a panel of seven autoantibodies, which are associated with ‘solid tumours’… and [are] triggered when cancerous changes are taking place.” They discovered “the presence of all seven autoantibodies, and very high levels of at least one of the seven in” nearly 80 percent of “samples taken from patients with confirmed lung cancer.”
MedPage Today (10/11, Smith) adds, “The study is not the first to suggest that testing for so-called autoantibodies…might allow for early detection of cancer.” Earlier this year, a study published in the Annals of Oncology found that “higher levels of tumor antibodies were present in the circulation of patients with early invasive breast cancer, and ductal carcinoma in situ.” According to a 2003 study published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, “a panel of seven autoantibodies (mostly not the same as those used in this study) could be used to detect lung cancer.”
FACT,
I have to confess, am a fool for my dizzied idolatry for the American economy. I do so without a clue. Now I believe what you were saying in your criticism yesterday.
IRS SAYS RICH GETTING RICHER: REPORT
1 hour, 48 minutes ago
The richest one percent of Americans earned a postwar record of 21.2 percent of all income in 2005, up from 19 percent a year earlier, reflecting a widening income disparity among different classes in the nation, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing new Internal Revenue Service data.
The data showed that the fortunes of the bottom 50 percent of Americans are worsening, with that group earning 12.8 percent of all income in 2005, down from 13.4 percent the year before, the paper said.
It said that while the IRS data goes back only to 1986, academic research suggests that the last time wealthy Americans had such a high percentage of the national income pie was in the 1920s.
The article cited an interview with President Bush, who attributed income inequality to “skills gaps” among various classes. It said the IRS didn’t identify the source of rising income for the affluent, but said a boom on Wall Street has likely played a part.
#4. We will see. He who laughs last, laughs the most, remember? Our time is nearing.
I only hope you survive Lusaka Dynamoes this weekend. Ifibaiche fileteya bwino sana.
Ifwe, we will be feasting on Konkola Blades Ku Nchanga Stadium.
Dedicating this song to Dr Chuchu
-Dr Chuchu napena lelo tecakupapa
-eminnine pakonaula
-icolo censu
-Zambia, Zambia, Zambia
#10
Thaaaaat iiiis aaaa gooooduuuuu songuuuuuu. I wi wi wi wiwill telloooo Dr Muloooooooooongieeee tu tu tu to givieeeeeeeee di di di di di directivieeee tu tu tu tu to Zeeeeee NBC tu tu tu to pla pla pla playieee eit eit eit it beforeooooooo mai mai mai mai mai main news.
#10
Thaaaaat iiiis aaaa gooooduuuuu songuuuuuu. I wi wi wi wiwill telloooo Dr Muloooooooooongotieeee tu tu tu to givieeeeeeeee di di di di di directivieeee tu tu tu tu to Zeeeeee NBC tu tu tu to pla pla pla playieee eit eit eit it beforeooooooo mai mai mai mai mai main news.
MY CADRES HERE CHAPI, BA JOZE AND TOP PLANNING TO “LITVINENKOâ€ME
I have been failed by my foolish shushushus assigned to sing for our PF online. Lusaka Times was born on agreement to serve our interest to better rival MMD’s overwhelming propaganda machinery. The Taiwanese Government helped us with the initial pay of our supposedly dedicated cadres here. But today I’m a very embarrassed President with the blunder our choice of these fools on our payroll here.
They have swindled me a lot of money dong their useless and politically unhelpful kindergarten acrobatics. Meanwhile, MMD is increasingly consolidating itself moving from one level of dominion to another. When I remind my cadres to change their strategy, show brainpower and weaken MMD, they conspire to “Litvinenko†me.
PF need smart and artistic devotees on all fronts and not these clueless mercenaries we errored in recruitment. Instead of driving our agenda, they are priding of their tea making tuntemba in markets and dagga smocking. What mileage do these add to our Party? Do such help weaken MMD? Does such help us win financial and material good will from those on the rails? These thugs have alienated more would be supporters than any other fools in the arena.
MMD has nothing to loose out of these off side mercenary works. MMD has prolific propaganda machineries and unlimited financial means at so much easy. In election seasons they just show up and spam us with another victory. All radios, TV and grassroot party structures sing their party songs 24/7 when our fools are sing tea making.
I’m a very saddened mambala as my dreams to rule this country are diminishing every day.
From now on i have started calling myself Dr. Sata. Levy is a lawyer while I’m a constable wama constable. I deserve a Doctorate. I’m officially arranging with Taiwan to prepare me one to display in my office before my cadres “Litvinenko†me.My achievements are that i started PF borrowed from my God-father Mugabe’s Party Zanu-PF. I have since resisted intra-party democracy using divide and conquer, intimidation and manipulation on opponents interested in challenging me for the PF Presidency. The fact that 7 years has passed with my absolute power, I deserve a Doctorate. Please call me Dr. Sata too.
Defend Christianity- Mambo
A Lusaka-based clergyman has urged the church mother bodies not to boycott the National Constitution Conference (NCC) as doing so will adversely affect the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation.
Former Church of God Southern Africa regional overseer, Bishop John Mambo said if the church mother bodies stay away from the NCC, there will be no strong voice to defend the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation.
Dr Sata, what else is a fraud in our system? I know PF MPs are a fraud. What about ba first lady wesu,ba doctor,she was last heard calling for legalisation of abortion.Lu fraud te? Nga Chimumbwa nao ni fraud te?
#8 MWAICHE FACT.Bushe nabakwambukisha ICHIPUMPUTU?
#13 Pragmatist
Kashi uli ndoshi iyineyine te? Zohona wapwa abantu iwe mambala. You dont know up to now that Dr Chuchu mulwele wa chipumputu te? Wanya ulecimona icalengele inkoko ukutasunda. Your presdo lishilu lyakukoli who can uttter things that that make you close your ears and eyes. At the momement his fellow African head of states they consider him as Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada of Zambia while the Britons call him “the Elephant” coz of the origin of the name “muwelewele” from Mfuwe h/day
I’m capt Siame. The legitimate party under MMD has thwarted coup plot organised by ci mudala ci Pragamatist, ka Fact and ci Veteran. These chaps are now in custard await trial on treason case. Dr Muloooongooooti fed us with some info that the trio wanted to take advantage on Dr Chuchu who has now forgotten that he’s the head of MMD. So never be cheated pipo Dr Chuchu is still the head of MMD and the trio coup plotters are now fired from MMD and they will never post anything on LT. If that happ