No need to panic, Govt assures civil servants

THE Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Prisca Mupfumira says there is no need for civil servants to panic and demand official communication as there are no changes to the Government's communication regarding their salaries, salary dates and bonuses.

She reassured the public service workers that the Government was working on improving their conditions of service but appealed to pensioners to be patient as the Government was putting in place mechanisms to ensure they were also paid on time.

In an interview on Friday, Minister Mupfumira said the Government was not going to communicate in any other formal way other than the way it was engaging civil servants. Her comments come in the wake of demands by civil servants representatives for the Government to communicate its pledge not to cut their salaries as well as its commitment to pay their bonuses.

Minister Mupfumira said she spoke the civil servants prior to Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa's announcements in his Mid–Term Fiscal Policy Review statement that civil servants' bonuses would be suspended for two years while their salaries and allowances would be reduced as part of a raft of measures to get back the national economy on track.