Labour

Summary of the Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment (General) Order, 2006 (Prepared by JCTR) This briefing seeks to inform on the contents of the revised Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment Act (Cap. 276), specifically Statutory Instrument (SI) 57 of 2006 that governs wages and conditions of employment for the general worker

Summary of the Minimum Wages and Conditions of Employment (Shop Workers) Order, 2006 (Prepared by JCTR)

Ministry of Labour and Social Security Stakeholder Meeting on Casualisation Presentation by Chris Petrauskis 15th November 2006

Employee Vulnerability in Zambia: a policy guide to casualiastion, minimum wage and the dignity of work
(3rd Quarter Policy Brief) November 2006, Chris Petrauskis

JCTR calls for immediate implementation of the National employment and labour market policy
Improvement in the livelihood of Zambian households depends not only upon how many new jobs are created, but on what type of jobs are created and who the main beneficiaries are. 29 November 2005

Vulnerability and the employee: PDF Document
How to restore dignity to employment in Zambia; - (4th quarter Policy Brief) November 2005.

Restoring Dignity to employment in Zambia: Legal & Moral motivation to promote the common good; PDF - October 2005, Chris Petrauskis

More efforts needed at addressing the challenges of employment creation; May 2005
One of the deepest crises of our time is that in addition to a general situation of unemployment -- where less than six hundred thousand people are in formal employment ...

Social Protection and Corporate Social Responsibility

Investing directly in the poor: A demand for Social Protection in Zambia February 2007
It presents the moral and economic case for the formulation and scaling up of awide array of "social protection" intiatives in Zambia

The good company in the Zambian context.
This paper explores some internal as well as external company or organisational arrangements that are important constitutive elements of the good company. October 2006, Muweme Muweme