Collective Bargaining Agreement-Agricultural Industry-General Agriculture
General agriculture gets a new job and grade schedule: SI 41 of 2022's job schedule is revoked for the subsector and replaced by the NEC's 2024 job evaluation report, binding across the industry.
This is S.I. 225 of 2025 republished with corrections. It publishes the registered collective bargaining agreement for the general agriculture subsector, approved by the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare under section 80(1) of the Labour Act.
The employer parties are ZAEO, ZCFU, the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association, CFU and ZFU; the employee parties are GAPWUZ, HGAPWUZ, AAWU, PAAWUZ and ZHAGAWU, all party to the National Employment Council for the Agricultural Industry.
As with the agro subsector agreement gazetted alongside it, the change is structural. The job schedule in S.I. 41 of 2022 is revoked for the general agriculture subsector and replaced by the NEC's General Agriculture Sector Job Evaluation Report 2024, which lists the subsector's jobs and the grade attached to each.
The agreement was signed at Harare on 15 January 2025 and binds all organisations within the agricultural industry. Farm employers should re-grade staff against the new schedule; wage rates for the grades are not set by this instrument.
What changed
- The S.I. 41 of 2022 job schedule is revoked for the general agriculture subsector
- The NEC General Agriculture Sector Job Evaluation Report 2024 becomes the subsector's job and grade schedule
- The agreement binds all organisations in the agricultural industry
- Republished with corrections in place of S.I. 225 of 2025
Who this affects
- Commercial and communal farm employers in general agriculture
- Farm workers graded under the old SI 41 of 2022 schedule
- Tobacco growers and their labour administrators
- Agricultural unions and employer organisations
Plain-language summary — not legal advice. Always read the full instrument.