Government has announced completion of the Human Resource (HR) Management in Malawi Bill draft, which would regulate the HR profession in the country. Principal Secretary in the Department of HR Management and Development, Hilario Chimota, said he expected that the Bill would be tabled in Parliament by January 2020.

Chimota hailed the Bill as a development that will make the HR profession accountable because the profession will have legislation. “It will be a controlled profession,” Chimota said.

IPM-Malawi President, Michel Ndaferankhande, said legislating the profession would facilitate growth and also help promote efficiency among practitioners. “We are getting very good support from the government. We need to do more consultations and, next month, we would be conducting regional consultations on the bill,” he said.