Abstract: The article attempts to answer whether the labour laws of Zambia are designed to encourage dialogue. The author argues that this is central to the understanding of today’s industrial relations scenario in the country. From his analysis, the author concludes that to increase productivity and efficiency, it is important that labour laws do not only appear but are actually seen to encourage and foster dialogue. The author recommends that there is urgent need to restructure the laws in this liberalized economy so that the input of the workers in industry can be properly compensated through the process of constant and sincere dialogue not dented by fraud and treachery.