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Teachers demand meeting with government
TEACHERS' unions have demanded to meet government in order to resolve the current impasse between the two parties. This comes as most teachers across the country boycotted the reopening of pub...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 18:22hrs | 1850 | by Staff reporter
Confusion hits schools restart
CONFUSION has hit the reopening of schools, with teachers refusing to return to classes until government offers them a good salary deal.Schools, which closed in March following the outbreak of...Published: 28 Sep 2020 at 06:52hrs | 4175 | by Staff reporter
Salary top-up for civil servants
GOVERNMENT will this week pay civil servants an additional Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) allowance, while salary negotiations continue.Civil servants are expected to start receiving the add...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1723 | by Staff reporter
Fresh divisions rock civil servants
FRESH divisions have rocked civil servants after the Apex Council leadership decided to transform the government workers organisation to the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Service Trade Unions (ZCPT...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 18:58hrs | 1242 | by Staff reporter
US dollar allowances extended to year-end
Civil servants and Government pensioners will continue to get their tax-free US dollar Covid-19 allowances until December. The allowances, of US$75 a month for civil servants and US$30 a month...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:16hrs | 917 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga pledges to improve the working conditions of health workers
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga who is also the country's Health Minister has pledged to improve the working conditions of public sector health workers.This comes as the Health Apex Counci...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:38hrs | 1752 | by Staff reporter
Govt salary talks collapse
GOVERNMENT salary talks broke down last week, with teachers saying they will boycott classes when schools reopen for examination classes next week as a result.The Apex Council, an umbrella bod...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:38hrs | 4865 | by Staff reporter
Teachers declare incapacitation ahead of schools reopening
THE opening of schools for examination classes after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been dealt a blow after teachers declared incapacitation.Government announced Grade Seven, Ord...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:24hrs | 2255 | by Staff reporter
Bonus, salary hike for civil servants
CIVIL servants are set for a happy end of year as the Government has assured them that they will receive their bonus while modalities are also being worked out to continue with foreign currency allowa...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:06hrs | 2184 | by Staff reporter
Govt adopts quarterly salary reviews
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said government had now resolved to review civil servants' salaries after every three months to hedge against runaway inflation rate.Ncube announced the...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:32hrs | 5056 | by Staff reporter
Early Christmas for Zimbabwe civil servants
CIVIL servants are set to continue receiving US$75 COVID-19 allowances each until December. Government had initially indicated that the facility would run for three months from June this year,...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 07:15hrs | 7071 | by Stff reporter
Civil servants forex payment extended
GOVERNMENT has pledged to extend the foreign currency non-taxable Covid-19 allowance for civil servants and pensioners to December as it maintains its position of providing a living wage for its emplo...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:50hrs | 2657 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU plots lunch hour protests
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has mobilised its members to embark on lunch hour protests starting Monday to push for United States dollar based salaries in light of the free falling eco...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:35hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube lying over salary talks'
THE Civil Service Apex Council has accused Finance minister Mthuli Ncube of falsely claiming that government was in salary negotiations with its workers.Apex Council chairperson Cecilia Alexan...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:48hrs | 2196 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:52hrs | 3927 | by Staff reporter
Govt misled civil servants on US$75 allowances
GOVERNMENT'S treatment of its workers particularly barring them from accessing their US$75 allowances in hard currency merely demonstrates how it has perfected the art of frustrating not only its empl...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:48hrs | 3788 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe teachers now the least paid civil servants
Teachers are worried about the difference between their salaries and those of other civil servants such as the armed forces after noticing that they have become the least paid among the government wor...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:20hrs | 6634 | by Stephen Jakes
No US$75 joy for civil servants
CIVIL servants yesterday expressed anger after failing to access their US$75 allowances as promised by the government, accusing their employer of being insincere.Government last month promised...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:20hrs | 1235 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants start receiving US$ salaries
CIVIL servants and Government pensioners have started receiving US$75 and US$30 Covid-19 relief allowances respectively as part of an initiative to cushion them from skyrocketing prices of goods....Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:37hrs | 2992 | by Staff Reporter
Showdown looms over US$ salaries
Civil servants have requested a post-Mid-Term Fiscal Policy review meeting with the ministries of Finance and Public Service Labour and Social Welfare and central bank chief John Mangudya as they push...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 08:02hrs | 6807 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 21749 | by Staff reporter
Govt, workers face off over US$ salaries
ZIMBABWE'S public sector unions yesterday demanded that government pays their wages in United States dollars and threatened to go on strike, adding to the problems facing President Emmerson Mnangagwa'...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:27hrs | 1179 | by Staff reporter
100 retail operators arrested for not accepting Zimdollar, bond notes
Refusing to accept the Zimdollar and bond notes as payment for goods has landed 102 Zimbabwean business owners and retail employees in trouble, with 28 of these appearing in court as the government en...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 19:55hrs | 3961 | by Staff reporter
Striking nurses' issue taken to government
THE Health Service Board (HSB) yesterday said it had submitted the demands of the striking health workers to government and was still awaiting a response.HSB chairman Paulinus Sikosana made th...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 2617 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants, govt meet over salaries
Government is set to meet with civil servants today over salaries and perks under the National Joint Negotiating Council. The NJNC has since written to the Apex Council chairperson Cecilia Ale...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 5777 | by Staff reporter
'Civil servants pay temporary arrangement'
THE Health Services Board (HSB) has said the recently announced review of salaries for civil servants was just an interim arrangement while they await Treasury's response on a request for a potential ...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 07:19hrs | 4934 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest striking nurses
POLICE yesterday arrested health and general workers at Victoria Chitepo Hospital in Mutare as nurses and some doctors deserted major hospitals across the country following a call by their unions to d...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:34hrs | 2029 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants reject pay offer
CIVIL servants, through the Apex Council, yesterday rejected government's pay offer of a 50% raise and US$75 allowance for three months as doctors and nurses declared a full-blown strike.Prote...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:11hrs | 1410 | by Staff reporter
Govt clarifies US dollar Covid-19 allowance
THE interim US$75 Covid-19 relief allowance for civil servants, which was announced by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development as part of a raft of measures to cushion workers against wanton ...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1400 | by Staff reporter
Govt, civil servants to meet over cost of living adjustment
GOVERNMENT and civil servants are set for an urgent meeting to discuss the latter's grievances arising from the high cost of living. This comes amid concerns that while prices of basic commodi...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants demand meeting with govt
CIVIL servants have written to the government demanding an urgent meeting over salaries, which they say have been significantly eroded by inflation.This comes as prices of basic commodities an...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 11:21hrs | 3125 | by Staff reporter
Salary hike for civil servants
GOVERNMENT and civil servants' representatives are scheduled to meet this week to negotiate fresh salary adjustments and improved working conditions, amid eroding disposable income.The new fig...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:18hrs | 1579 | by Staff reporter
'Over-reliance on China to derail Zimbabwe recovery'
ZIMBABWE is highly exposed to any sharp economic slowdown in China due to what will likely be an overreliance on the Asian economic powerhouse for financial support.There are fears the escalating ...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:17hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Mahomva booted out over 'refusal to bend the rules'
CHIEF Covid-19 coordinator Agnes Mahomva's sudden removal from the Ministry of Health and Child Care after a short-lived tenure as permanent secretary was the culmination of fierce clashes with Health...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:08hrs | 2201 | by Staff reporter
Nurses shelve strike
THE country's health workers, who on Tuesday gave notice to embark on strike over docking of flexible working hours, have shelved the industrial action after government agreed to their demands....Published: 14 May 2020 at 07:53hrs | 601 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe nurses give strike notice
HEALTH workers have given the government a written notice to engage in a strike starting today, a development that could plunge the nation into a health disaster due to the ongoing COVID-19 scourge....Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 2099 | by Staff reporter
Govt scraps 'flexi hours' for health workers
All health workers are now required to report for work everyday instead of selected days per week which came after an arrangement dubbed "flexible working hours". The arrangement was introduce...Published: 07 May 2020 at 11:17hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
'Workers in Zimbabwe are mourning'
"My prospects are useless, the leadership of the country should change because they have failed us as a country, in terms of employment it's their duty to create employment but they have failed. ...Published: 02 May 2020 at 18:34hrs | 1767 | by Daniel Itai
Nurses demand two weeks of isolation
NURSES have demanded that the government allows them to work for one week and rest the following two weeks in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) in health facilities.This comes...Published: 02 May 2020 at 16:47hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
Health workers receive Covid-19 risk allowances
HEALTH workers reporting for duty have started receiving the Covid-19 risk allowance from Government amounting to $1 500. The allowance is based on the risk factor as determined by the authori...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:47hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe teachers need urgent salary review'
THE Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou says teachers have relapsed into incapacitation because the salary increment effected by government in February for civil s...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 08:18hrs | 1398 | by Staff reporter
Health workers get allowances raise
On-call, night duty and standby allowances for public sector health workers have been raised by between 60 percent and 100 percent with effect from January, with the Covid-19 risk allowances, in three...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt, civil servants headed for clash
GOVERNMENT and its workers are headed for a showdown amid revelations the civils servants were demanding United States dollar-denominated salaries post the Covid-19 pandemic.In the past, the g...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:51hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
Nurses association urges members to report for duty
The Zimbabwe Nurses Association has called off plans to withdrew labour and have advised its membership to report for work with effect from today following response to some of its concerns by Governme...Published: 30 Mar 2020 at 08:07hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
'Health workers turn away patients'
FEAR and ignorance have led healthcare workers at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo to neglect patients that suffer from other ailments, as they now believe that every ill person who walks through th...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 07:30hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health workers demand $10 000 a month
Frontline health workers are appealing for a $10 000 risk allowance per month, as they battle Covid-19, which has affected five people in Zimbabwe so far. The proposal is for the allowance to ...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:31hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants want to work from home
THE Apex Council is lobbying Government to allow civil servants in none essential departments to work from home as part of a raft of measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country. Gov...Published: 24 Mar 2020 at 06:34hrs | 608 | by Staff reporter
Labour to approach Govt for for another salary review
THE Apex council has said it would be approaching Government for an emergency meeting to negotiate for better salaries for civil servants as their incomes have been eroded by price hikes. In J...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 05:53hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe teachers need urgent salary review'
THE Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou says teachers have relapsed into incapacitation because the salary increment effected by government in February for civil s...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 07:13hrs | 1491 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants savage Mthuli Ncube
CIVIL servants have not only rejected the government's plans to introduce a welfare fund- that will see them contributing 2,5 percent of their salary to this pot every month- they have also slammed Fi...Published: 28 Feb 2020 at 16:53hrs | 1214 | by Staff reporter
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