OK Zimbabwe human resources manager, Samuel Ndlovu told
Harare Civil Court magistrate Sharon Mashavira that Oscar Chibande has been
disturbing employees’ peace ever since he was fired.
He said the retailer was seeking the court’s intervention
after receiving several reports from employees complaining that Chibande was
provoking them.
The court heard that Chibande’s unlawful actions were
captured on closed circuit television, prompting the retail giant to apply for
the peace order to protect its employees.
However, Chibande disputed the allegations, telling the
court that he had been at the said branch because the retailer had summoned him
to appear for disciplinary hearing.
“I was only there because Ndlovu called me and asked me to
attend a hearing and collect minutes for the other hearing that was done in my
absence.
“I only went twice and on both days they failed to provide
me with the documents that they had said I should collect,” he said.
Chibande said OK Zimbabwe was seeking a peace order to bar
him from serving them with court papers for a case to be heard at the Labour
Court concerning his unfair dismissal from work.
He appealed with the court to dismiss the application
because he visits the shop to buy groceries.
Mashavira, however, told Chibande that approaching the
applicant’s stores for groceries was a lame excuse given that both parties had
matters before the courts.
She ordered Chibande to stop visiting OK supermarkets,
harassing the applicant’s employees and to buy his groceries from other
supermarkets. Newsday
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