Madhuku threatens to sue government

THE Lovemore Madhuku-led National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) party has threatened to take government to court for breaching civil servants' right to have fixed pay dates.

The NCA threat comes barely 24 hours after Civil Service Commission (CSC) secretary Pretty Sunguro announced changes to civil servants' pay days for the next six months.

The government has been struggling to raise revenue for most of its operations and salaries. NCA spokesman Maddock Chivasa said the CSC announcement infringed the workers' rights as enshrined in the labour laws that say a pay day should be fixed.

The NCA argued that the Zanu PF government was not worried about the plight of workers and the inconvenience of the sporadic pay days as it had its eyes fixed on the next election.