Farai Dziva|The MDC A has accused the Emmerson Mnangagwa administration of “taxing workers to death.”

In a statement released on Workers Day MDC A spokesperson Jacob Mafume said: ” We have witnessed a drastic shift to labour market flexibility.

A Labour Amendment Act was enacted and rendered the worker legally disposable.

Workers were retrenched without benefits, paid a paltry three months notice package plus two weeks wages for every year served.

Preceding that period, pensions to the tune of US$6 billion had been lost due to Zanu PF mismanagement of the economy, according to the Justice Commission report.

Workers have been declared enemies beyond reconciliation, the State has conflated with Capital. Labour rights are curtailed, unions are criminalised and their leaders are thrown in the same jail cells with bank robbers and rapists.

The cost of living has gone beyond the reach of the working people, they cannot buy bread, and wage value has been eroded. They are taxed to death.”