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Civil servants ups fresh strike threats
25 May 2012 at 08:58hrs | Views
The Government has been given until the end of next month to address demands for a salary review or face another strike by civil servants.
The President of the civil servants' umbrella body, Apex Council, Tendai Chikowore, yesterday said government employees were getting impatient over their employer's deafening silence over the matter.
She said early this year government had pledged to provide regular updates to civil servants' representatives, but had failed to do so.
"Ever since our last meeting earlier this year, issues such as revision of housing and transport allowances, awarding rural allowances and review of basic salaries were not addressed. In our memorandum of understanding with the government, we had made it clear that by the 1st of June we should have met, but there is still nothing," said Chikowore.
In January, government bowed to civil servants' demand for a salary review and awarded them paltry increases of between $43 and $58 each.
The President of the civil servants' umbrella body, Apex Council, Tendai Chikowore, yesterday said government employees were getting impatient over their employer's deafening silence over the matter.
"Ever since our last meeting earlier this year, issues such as revision of housing and transport allowances, awarding rural allowances and review of basic salaries were not addressed. In our memorandum of understanding with the government, we had made it clear that by the 1st of June we should have met, but there is still nothing," said Chikowore.
In January, government bowed to civil servants' demand for a salary review and awarded them paltry increases of between $43 and $58 each.
Source - Byo24News
