Mulunga labour dispute returns to arbitration
The Labour Court has referred a dispute between the state-owned company Namcor Petroleum Trading and Distribution and its former managing director, Imms Mulunga, back to a labour arbitrator after ruling that an arbitrator wrongly found last June that he did not have jurisdiction to deal with the matter. A labour arbitrator indeed has jurisdiction to […] The post Mulunga labour dispute returns to arbitration appeared first on The Namibian .
The Labour Court has referred a dispute between the state-owned company Namcor Petroleum Trading and Distribution and its former managing director, Imms Mulunga, back to a labour arbitrator after ruling that an arbitrator wrongly found last June that he did not have jurisdiction to deal with the matter.
A labour arbitrator indeed has jurisdiction to deal with a dispute that the company – a subsidiary of the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) – referred to the Office of the Labour Commissioner at the end of October 2024, judge Beatrix de Jager said in a judgement delivered in the Labour Court in Windhoek on Friday.
De Jager upheld an appeal by Namcor Petroleum Trading and Distribution against an arbitration award that arbitrator Moses Mazambo issued last June.
She ordered that points raised by Mulunga before the arbitrator are dismissed and that the dispute is referred back for a hearing by a different arbitrator.
