There is trouble brewing in the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) following the firing of Ken Kandodo as Labour Minister for his involvement in the alleged mismanagement of Covid-19 funds. Shortly after Chakwera gave his Labour Minister the boot, Malawi Congress Party elders in Kasungu took the issue as a war between Kasungu MCP and Lilongwe […]
Barely five days after the Public Accounts Committee (Pac) of Parliament ordered the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 to recover all allowances that were paid to the country’s Leader of Opposition (LoP) Kondwani Nankhumwa within seven days, some people in Kasungu are saying that he “is not more equal” and should, therefore, “step down from […]
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) says it has postponed the nationwide demonstrations it planned to hold to force the Tonse Alliance government to release the audit into the plunder of the K6.2 billion Covid-19 funds by public officers and businesspeople. The demonstrations were slated for April 29, 2021. However, following the arrest of 61 […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has dropped Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo from his Cabinet after he took K1.4 million from the ministry’s project account on Covid-19, to use as allowances on a trip to South Africa last year, and the Malawi leader has warned to pursue thieving public officers implicated in the K6.2 billion investigative audit […]
Government says it might not know whether it has created one million jobs or not because of lack of technical capacity to verify the figures. Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo said the government lacks technical capacity to track job creation data. The Tonse Alliance administration has been promising to create job centers across the country, […]
Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo says the government is this week expecting a response from authorities South Africa detailing compensation payment modalities for former Malawian miners. Thousands of Malawians worked in South African mines in 1960s, 70s and 80s during apartheid when the then white minority government outsourced labour in mines because black South Africans […]
Minister of Labour, Ken Kandodo toured some companies in Southern Region on Monday, to inspect if they were adhering to COVID-19 preventive measures and find out how they were managing the pandemic. Kandodo visited Makande Tea Estate, Capital Oil Refining Industries (CORI) and Chirimba Textiles. “Today I visited some companies in the south to primarily […]
Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo on Wednesday, 6 January 2021 brought together management and staff of Malawi Airlines to discuss possible solutions on the issues affecting the workers and make sure that they have necessary energy when providing their services. The meeting came following a warning that the workers issued warning letter to put down […]
K140 000 for 30 tonnes and above international truck driver K100 000 for 30 tonnes and above for local truck driver K60 000 for driver of trucks below 30 tonnes K1 461.54 per day for domestic workers Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo has presented in Parliament Gazette Extraordinary 493 dated 22nd December, 2020 that has […]
Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo has been diagnosed with coronavirus (Covid-19). He is admitted to Kamuzu Central hospital, according to sources in government. It is said to be a “precautionary step” taken on the advice doctors. Cases of the pandemic have begun rising again in what the presidential taskforce on Covid-19 says is a second […]
Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo has challenged human resources (HR) professionals to play a part by supporting government’s agenda of creating one million jobs in one year. The minister said this on Monday during the Institute of People Management in Malawi (IPMM) Annual Lakeshore Conference in Mangochi. The conference was held under the theme ‘Professionalism, […]
Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) has been urged to work with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to ensure that certification on quality and marketable products are realized. Minister of Labour, Ken Kandodo on Wednesday visited the MBS in Blantyre. He said that SMEs have the highest potential to create the 1 million jobs; government was […]
Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo has emphasised the need for harmonising assessment and examining of students in all technical colleges for the country to develop skilled labour force. Kandodo said this on Friday in Lilongwe during the official closing of a capacity building workshop of TEVET assessors and examiners. He said the country could only […]
Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo and his deputy Vera Kamtukule have said they undertaking Ministerial consultations with some key stakeholders in both the public and private sector including the informal business sector to leverage on potential strategies that can create jobs. Kandodo, who on Friday toured Lilongwe and Salima technical colleges, said the technical colleges […]
Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo has told a grouping of graduate interns who demanded an outright employment in the civil service after undergoing internship program for about two years that that it is impossible to employ all interns. Kandodo said this when he engaged the executive committee of the interns to iron out the issues […]
State Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima has disclosed the Malawi government plans to establish Workers Compensation Fund, which is expected to lead in the timely payment of compensation to workers as well as reduce fraudulent compensation claims. The government is also planning to set up a Labour Market Information Centre, which Chilima said will be […]
Government has urged management and staff at Mount Meru Millers locked in a sit in to resolve their grievance amicably. Minister of Labour, Ken Kandodo made the request Friday after visiting the Company’s premises in Lumbadzi in Dowa after support staff staged a sit in on Thursday. He said the pro-longed sitting of the company […]
Government, through the Ministry of Labour, has developed a road map to fulfill its promise of creating one million (1, 000, 000) jobs for the country’s citizens, especially the youth. Speaking on Monday during a media briefing in Lilongwe, Minister of Labour, Kenny Kandodo, said the road map is to ensure the vision of creating […]