2016 National budget has nothing for workers
ZCTU acting Secretary General, Enock MahariIn said in fact, the Minister gloats about firing of Ziscosteel workers using
the three months notice period.
"What is more worrying is
that the
budget treat our situation as business as usual yet the country is
burning. It makes the same mistake as last year of pegging unrealistic
growth projections and focuses on arrears clearance and recurrent
expenditure. It does not have an explicit developmental plan," he said.
"ZCTU believes the budget fails to meet the following: Clarity and credibility, alignment with medium-term priorities of the government .eg ZIMASSET, efficacy of capital budgeting framework, justification of the allocations and quality of proposed management and monitoring of the plan."
He said overally, the ZCTU believes the budget framework is not pro-
