Archive for the “civil servants” category
Desperate national railways wives appeal for salaries
by Alex Bell on March 6, 2013
By Alex Bell 6 March 2013 The wives of men employed by the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) have once again appealed to the authorities to ensure their husbands get full salaries, after eight months of non-payment. The parastatal owes its more than seven thousand strong workforce about US$1.4 million in unpaid salaries and allowances. [...]
Pay rise for public servants
by Nomalanga Moyo on February 15, 2013
By Nomalanga Moyo 15 February 2013 Zimbabwe’s civil servants have been awarded a 5.3% inflation-related salary increment, the Public service Minister has revealed. The increase, which will be backdated to January this year, is set to push the country’s civil service wage bill to $2.6 billion. This is almost 68% of the national budget announced [...]
Biti promises civil servants bonuses
by Alex Bell on October 26, 2012
By Alex Bell 26 October 2012 Finance Minister Tendai Biti has promised that civil servants bonuses will be paid out at the end of the year, despite the government remaining in financial trouble. Biti had previously raised doubts that bonuses could be paid because of the government’s massive debt crisis. But addressing a pre-budget con¬sultative [...]
Civil servants delay strike by 48 hours
by Tererai Karimakwenda on October 8, 2012
By Tererai Karimakwenda 08 October 2012 Civil servants, under the umbrella Apex Council, on Monday threatened to strike in 48 hours if government does not resume negotiations for the wage increases that they are demanding. Government suspended talks with the workers’ representatives last month, with the Public Service Minister alleging there was a leadership row [...]
War vets besiege Biti’s office – again
by Lance Guma on July 31, 2012
By Lance Guma 31 July 2012 A week after civil servants petitioned Finance Minister Tendai Biti demanding wage increases, a rowdy group of war vets aligned to ZANU PF besieged his offices in Harare on Monday, threatening to close down the ministry. The war vets and other civil servants are demanding a minimum salary of [...]
Biti threatens to join civil servants in future strikes
by Tichaona Sibanda on July 26, 2012
By Tichaona Sibanda 26 July 2012 Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Wednesday told Senators in Parliament that next time civil servants staged a demonstration against government for better pay, he would join them. Civil servants on Tuesday demonstrated against Biti after he last week failed to address their calls for a salary hike during presentation [...]
Civil servants strike, demand salary hikes
by Tichaona Sibanda on July 24, 2012
By Tichaona Sibanda 24 July 2012 Just one hundred civil servants in Harare went on a protest march, to denounce the government’s failure to meet their salary demands. Our correspondent in the capital, Simon Muchemwa, told us it took the civil servants almost two hours to gather at the Harare gardens in central Harare where [...]
Police criticised for quickly licensing Biti protest
by Tererai Karimakwenda on July 23, 2012
By Tererai Karimakwenda 23 July, 2012 The police have been strongly criticised for speedily licensing planned demonstrations by civil servants against Finance Minister Tendai Biti, who is being accused of refusing to increase their wages. The umbrella union for civil servants, the Apex Council, resolved last week to demonstrate on Tuesday over the lack of [...]
