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Govt, civil servants negotiations ends on a stalemate
17 Jan 2014 at 19:25hrs | Views
The government and civil servants salaries negotiations ended on a stalemate on Friday, with civil servants demanding that government revisits its offer before concluding talks on Monday.
Civil servants have rejected government's offer of $79 increase for the lowest paid worker.
Addressing journalist soon after the seven hours closed door meeting, Apex Council Chairperson Richard Gundani said there was good progress despite the meeting taking long and failing to come up with a resolution.
He said government is to carryout further technical work during the weekend before they can reach an agreement probably on Monday.
"We had good progress towards coming up with an agreement and there is a lot of technical work to be done during the weekend before we can adopt a resolution on Monday," said Mr Gundani.
Despite analysts calling on the negotiators to be sincere and consider the economic performance of the country before demanding very high increments, some civil servants negotiators still want the least paid employee to get $540 which they say is in line with the poverty datum line.
"We played our part, but government should be sincere," said one civil servants representative.
On Monday, government had tabled civil servants salary adjustments proposing that the least paid worker gets $375 up from $296 while the least paid teacher gets $500.
Civil servants have rejected government's offer of $79 increase for the lowest paid worker.
Addressing journalist soon after the seven hours closed door meeting, Apex Council Chairperson Richard Gundani said there was good progress despite the meeting taking long and failing to come up with a resolution.
He said government is to carryout further technical work during the weekend before they can reach an agreement probably on Monday.
"We had good progress towards coming up with an agreement and there is a lot of technical work to be done during the weekend before we can adopt a resolution on Monday," said Mr Gundani.
Despite analysts calling on the negotiators to be sincere and consider the economic performance of the country before demanding very high increments, some civil servants negotiators still want the least paid employee to get $540 which they say is in line with the poverty datum line.
"We played our part, but government should be sincere," said one civil servants representative.
On Monday, government had tabled civil servants salary adjustments proposing that the least paid worker gets $375 up from $296 while the least paid teacher gets $500.
Source - zbc
