{"id":5360,"date":"2025-05-29T11:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mps\/?p=5360"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:05:55","slug":"necs-challenged-to-evolve-and-modernise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/?p=5360","title":{"rendered":"NECs challenged to evolve and modernise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">THE country\u2019s 48 National Employment Councils (NECs) must urgently reinvent themselves from conventional dispute-resolution bodies into agile, tech-driven institutions if they are to remain relevant in a rapidly transforming economy, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Deputy Minister Mercy Dinha has said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">She made the call while addressing delegates at the 2025 NECs Symposium in Bulawayo on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Deputy Minister Dinha said Zimbabwe\u2019s labour institutions are at a crossroads and must evolve in line with global trends, including digitalisation, climate change and demographic shifts, to support the country\u2019s journey towards an upper-middle-income economy by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE country\u2019s 48 National Employment Councils (NECs) must urgently reinvent themselves from conventional dispute-resolution bodies into agile, tech-driven institutions if they are to remain relevant in a rapidly transforming economy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mpslsw.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}