ZIHRM PLEDGES ADVISORY SERVICES TO GOVT

THE Zambia Institute of Human Resource Management (ZIHRM) has pledged to continue proving advisory services to Government and private sector.

ZIHRM president Mooka Silumbu said the would continue providing advisory services in the areas of employment and industrial relations in the country.

Mr Silumbu said the organisation would particularly help interpret and implement the country's labour laws.

He was speaking during the ZIHRM gala dinner held at the Zambia Air Force (ZAF) in Livingstone.

"We know too well that without the human resource practitioners’ greater participation in managing our companies, our desire to develop as a country will remain a pipedream.

"We have to be, and in fact we are, the drivers of growth of our national economy and should be accorded such status by all stakeholders," Mr Silumbu said.

ZIHRM and its partners, would use their influence and networks to support the ZIHRM bill once it is enacted into law, Mr Silumbu. Cabinet has approved the ZIHRM 2019 bill and it would soon be presented to Parliament to replace the ZIHRM Act of number 11 of 1997.

And Livingstone Mayor Eugene Mapuwo said that the country needed human resource practitioners who were not just well trained but also experienced and exposed.

He said practitioners must be able to demonstrate high level of integrity, honesty and should be beyond reproach.

"Arising from the above, you should take into account that human resource to the largest extent possible, be managed by those closest to the point of service delivery," he said.