THE country’s 48 National Employment Councils (NECs) must urgently reinvent themselves from conventional dispute-resolution bodies into agile, tech-driven institutions if they are to remain relevant in a rapidly transforming economy, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Deputy Minister Mercy Dinha has said.
She made the call while addressing delegates at the 2025 NECs Symposium in Bulawayo on Wednesday.
Deputy Minister Dinha said Zimbabwe’s labour institutions are at a crossroads and must evolve in line with global trends, including digitalisation, climate change and demographic shifts, to support the country’s journey towards an upper-middle-income economy by 2030.
