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College lecturers earning US$300 per month
22 Sep 2014 at 16:54hrs | Views
College lecturers have appealed to the legislature to lobby government for the improvement of their welfare and working conditions.
Giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee of Higher and Tertiary Education, the college lecturers said their working conditions and welfare have reached low levels and they are seeking urgent intervention from the legislature and government.
College Lecturers Association of Zimbabwe (COLAZ) Secretary General, Mr Nixon Madovi said the situation has been compounded by the discrepancies in remuneration between them and their university counterparts.
With the lecturers complaining that they have been victims of a vacuum arrangement that could neither fit nor place them in teachers or university lecturers, Zaka Central legislator, Cde Paradzai Chakona however quizzed them on why they let the situation get to that level.
According to COLAZ, an average college lecturer earns almost US$300 while a university lecturer gets US$1 300 per month.
The discrepancy is what the college lecturers want addressed as they say that they are victims of an out-dated salary grading system.
Meanwhile, the Apex Council, an umbrella body of civil servants, has registered its disappointment with the recently pronounced mid-term fiscal policy statement by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Cde Patrick Chinamasa, saying it has a glaring omission on their welfare.
The Apex Council said the fiscal policy statement will leave civil servants even poorer by its proposals to increase taxation on airtime, imported used cars and duty on fuel.
Giving oral evidence before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee of Higher and Tertiary Education, the college lecturers said their working conditions and welfare have reached low levels and they are seeking urgent intervention from the legislature and government.
College Lecturers Association of Zimbabwe (COLAZ) Secretary General, Mr Nixon Madovi said the situation has been compounded by the discrepancies in remuneration between them and their university counterparts.
With the lecturers complaining that they have been victims of a vacuum arrangement that could neither fit nor place them in teachers or university lecturers, Zaka Central legislator, Cde Paradzai Chakona however quizzed them on why they let the situation get to that level.
According to COLAZ, an average college lecturer earns almost US$300 while a university lecturer gets US$1 300 per month.
The discrepancy is what the college lecturers want addressed as they say that they are victims of an out-dated salary grading system.
Meanwhile, the Apex Council, an umbrella body of civil servants, has registered its disappointment with the recently pronounced mid-term fiscal policy statement by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Cde Patrick Chinamasa, saying it has a glaring omission on their welfare.
The Apex Council said the fiscal policy statement will leave civil servants even poorer by its proposals to increase taxation on airtime, imported used cars and duty on fuel.
Source - zbc
