Collective Bargaining Agreement Agricultural Industry-Agro Subsector
The agro subsector of agriculture gets its own job grades: the old SI 41 of 2022 job schedule is revoked for agro employers and replaced by the NEC's 2024 job evaluation report, binding on the whole industry.
This is S.I. 226 of 2025 republished with corrections. It publishes the registered collective bargaining agreement for the agro subsector of the agricultural industry, approved by the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare under section 80(1) of the Labour Act.
The parties are the employer organisations — ZAEO, ZCFU, ZFU, CFU, ZAADEO and agro employer representatives — and the employee unions GAPWUZ, HGAPWUZ, ZHAGAWU and PAAWUZ, all sitting on the National Employment Council for the Agricultural Industry.
The substance is a change of job structure rather than of pay. The parties revoke the job schedule in S.I. 41 of 2022 so far as it applies to the agro subsector, and adopt in its place the NEC's Agro Sector Job Evaluation Report 2024, which sets out the subsector's jobs and their grades in detail — from production floor and crate washing roles through foreperson and supervisory grades.
The agreement was signed at Harare on 15 January 2025 and is stated to be binding on all organisations within the agricultural industry, not only the signatories. Employers in the agro subsector should re-map their staff onto the new grades; the instrument published here does not itself set wage rates for those grades.
What changed
- The S.I. 41 of 2022 job schedule is revoked for the agro subsector
- The NEC Agro Sector Job Evaluation Report 2024 becomes the subsector's job and grade schedule
- The agreement binds all organisations in the agricultural industry, not only the signatories
- Republished with corrections in place of S.I. 226 of 2025
Who this affects
- Agro subsector employers in the agricultural industry
- Agricultural workers graded under the old SI 41 of 2022 schedule
- HR and payroll administrators on farms and agro-processing sites
- The agriculture unions and employer organisations party to the NEC
Plain-language summary — not legal advice. Always read the full instrument.