Role of the Ministry in Investment Promotion

• Develop Investor friendly laws and policies that promote private sector growth
• Ensure total compliance with labour legislation.
• Ensuring labour productivity by maintaining industrial harmony and promotion of decent work
• Ensuring workers protections Maintenance of occupation health safety standards  at workplaces
• Educate employers on the provisions of the law
• Collection, analyzing and disseminating labour market information.
• Creating an enabling  environment for companies to hire appropriate Skills

What should investors do when they comes to Zambia

• Get all the existing labour legislation in country and comply
• Get information on recruitment of foreign labour, eg get to know what jobs cannot be given to foreigners eg Human Resource positions.
• Register the company with the office of the labour commissioner especially if there are more that 25 employees in the company for purposes of unionism as prescribed in the industrial and labour relations Act
• Understand the labour market practices

 

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