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UNI wrote to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office to draw the government's attention to Standard Chartered Bank's behaviour in Zimbabwe. Standard Chartered is a multinational company based in the United Kingdom.

Standard Chartered Bank has dismissed two trade union leaders for carrying out their legitimate union duties of representing and communicating with the workers.

Although the two employees have successfully appealed against their dismissal, the British-based bank chose to pay them damages and terminate their employment, instead of reinstating them.

The two employees were awarded seven and a half years salary, calculated in Zimbabwe Dollars at the rate applicable at the time of dismissal. Taking into account hyperinflation, the bank paid them USD 15 and USD 16 respectively.

Standard Chartered Bank's chairman, Mervyn Davies, has refused to intervene.

UNI called the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to take position in this matter and ask that the bank either reinstates the two trade union leaders without loss of pay or compensates them appropriately taking account of inflation.