NEARLY 700 jobs are on the table as the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development kicks off a major recruitment blitz for council officers across the country. Local Government Minister Ben Phiri is driving the push, saying the hiring spree is directly tied to the revamped K5 billion Constituency Development Fund (CDF) — President […]
Officials from Economists Association of Malawi (Ecama), an umbrella body for economists say the growing closure of business operations and retrenchment is detrimental to the country’s social economic growth. They have said this because of the growing trend of closure of some companies and retrenchment of employees. Lauryn Nyasulu , president of the Economic Association […]
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, […]
Europe-based Malawian consultant and communication exper James Woods-Nkhutabasa has encouraged Malawian entrepreneurs to apply for the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) programme where benefits include world-class business training, mentorship, $5,000 in funding, and global networking opportunities. The TEF is accepting applications until 31 March for its 2021 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. According to the foundation, this year’s […]
Kokoliliko Holdings Limited , a newly established diversified firm fronted by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) firm led by director Daud Suleman, has disclosed plans to establish entrepreneurship cooperatives in all the 193 constituencies and wards across the country. The company started as a political movement after the Presidential Elections Case with a team of key witnesses […]
Unemployed Community Midwifery Assistants (CMA) marched in the city of Lilongwe on Friday as protest over government failure to employ them. The over 500 CMAs have given government a five-day ultimatum to act on their needs. Clara Pasanje, representative of the grouping said they want government to recruit at least 500 CMAs as they have […]
Financially struggling AHL Group, formerly Auction Holdings Limited, has announced that it is retrenching some of its employees. The company has failed to pay its employees for over four months due to financial hardships facing the group. AHL Group, which owns and manages the country’s tobacco marketing floors and a commodity exchange among others, is […]
Ombudsman Martha Chizuma says her office will be recruiting additional staff to help with the ever expanding job of the office. The office has of late taken some demanding tasks which previous office holders never undertook. Chizuma said the extra staff will help in-depth and speedy investigation of cases in view of expansion in its […]
Recently retrenched employees of Castel Malawi Limited (CML) have dragged the brewer to the Industrial Relations Court (IRC) over what they have described as misrepresentation and unfair dismissal. The disgruntled former employees are being led by Purity Paschal Chitalo. Through IRC statement of claim dated 4 November 2020, Chitalo and 28 others are also accusing […]
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, […]
Minister of Industry, Roy Kachale on Tuesday said cooperatives in Malawi have a key role in ensuring that the current administration fulfills its promise of creating one million jobs during its first year in office. Kachale made the remarks in Thyolo after touring three cooperatives namely Zakudimba, Bvumbwe Dairy Farmers and Lomola Cooperative in Luchenza in […]
Minister of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati has said government will provide loan to agro-food processing students who have graduated with certificates and diplomas from Magomero Development and Social Work College to support their lives and communities. The minister made the pledge on Wednesday at Magomero during the graduation of 141 students. […]
President Lazarus Chakwera says the tourism sector has great potential to contribute to the social and economic growth of the country. Chakwera made the sentiments on Friday in Blantyre when he officially opened the Sogecoa Golden Peacock Hotel. He said the tourism industry is one of the key priorities in his Tonse Alliance-led Government considering that […]
Member of Parliament for Neno South, Mark Katsonga -Phiri has described as “too little “the allocation of K1.7 billion to ministry of industry (Vote 390) in the national budget, saying such an allocation contradicts Tonse Alliance government’s dream of creating one million jobs within a year in power. President Lazarus Chakwera made plenty of election […]
Employees at Toyota Malawi Liimted have demanded that the Malawi government should investigate some top bosses at the company who work as expatriates when, in actual fact, their qualifications and technical know-hows of the jobs they are handling are shoddy. The employees have said that most of the said expatriates are unqualified and yet they have taken high profile positions […]
A group of unemployed primary school teachers under the Initial Primary Teachers Education- IPTE13 cohort on Friday held protests in Mzuzu with demands that government should unconditionally rope them into the civil service. The group which said represented the whole IPTE13 cohort in the northern region said since they graduated in 2019 the Ministry of […]
State House has been forced to make a spin to control the damage as a result of President Lazarus Chakwera remarks which appeared, he has backtracked on his campaign promise to create one million jobs, saying the government can only employ 200,000 people. Chakwera said the government could not create jobs on its own and […]
Minister of Sports and youth development Ulemu Msungama says the Tonse Alliance government will continue pursuing the one million jobs creation initiative cusing various models devised by his ministry. Msungama said this in the area of Traditional Authority Malengachanzi in Nkhotakota District when he launched Jobs for youth project. In this project, Afridca Development Bank […]