Collective Bargaining Agreement National Employment Council for Electronics Communications, Radio, TV Manufacturing and Allied Industry

This further collective bargaining agreement amends the Electronics Communications, Radio, TV Manufacturing and Allied Industry agreement published in S.I. 247 of 2006, and is read as one with it.

It sets minimum basic salaries for the two-month period 1 June 2023 to 31 July 2023. The schedule runs across eleven grades: A1 ZWL$261 695,68; A2 ZWL$274 566,98; A3 ZWL$290 083,13; B1 ZWL$308 632,25; B2 ZWL$330 628,45; B3 ZWL$356 629,37; B4 ZWL$387 339,14; C1 ZWL$423 550,17; C2 ZWL$466 267,98; C3 ZWL$516 750,61; and C4 ZWL$576 525,92.

The agreement instructs all employers to comply, but expressly preserves better arrangements — where a more favourable arrangement is already in place, this agreement does not alter or affect it. It also reminds employers to pay NEC subscriptions promptly and to remit dues in the same currency they pay staff in.

The agreement does not state a percentage increase, does not print the previous rates, and sets no allowances, so the size of the rise is not visible on the face of the instrument.

On timing: it was signed at Harare on 20 April 2023 for a wage period that ended on 31 July 2023, but was gazetted only on 12 April 2024 — nearly a year after the period it covers, and in ZWL, a currency replaced by the ZiG in April 2024. No commencement date is stated.