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All signs bad - ZimVigil Diary
A number of reports this week exposed the worsening situation in Zimbabwe, facing hunger and malnutrition, continued abuse of human rights and a contracting economy. On Wednesday Veritas,...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 10:33hrs | 2172 | by ZimVigil Diary
Government further reviews health sector allowances
GOVERNMENT has reviewed health sector specific allowances by a further 40 percent from the initial 60 percent with effect from 1 October 2019. This latest revision will see junior doctors pocketing $2...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Govt further reviews health sector allowances
GOVERNMENT has reviewed health sector specific allowances by a further 40 percent from the initial 60 percent with effect from 1 October 2019. This latest revision will see junior doctors pock...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 06:44hrs | 926 | by Staff Reporter
100% bonus for civil servants
GOVERNMENT has resolved to pay civil servants full bonuses for 2019 pegged on gross income, a departure from last year when the 13th cheque was based on pensionable salaries only. In an interv...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 06:25hrs | 5415 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe teachers to work 2 days a week
Teachers will only work two days a week and will no longer abide by the formal dress code, the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) declared on Friday.The teachers announced the indu...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 17:13hrs | 2164 | by ZimLive
Govt workers launch strike
CIVIL servants have declared incapacitation to continue reporting for duty on their inflation-battered salaries, adding more misery to the government, which is struggling to tame the triple-digit infl...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:18hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter
Doctors told to resume work & dialogue
Government remains open to dialogue with striking doctors to find a lasting solution, but those discussions should be carried out while health workers are at work, Health and Child Care Minister Obadi...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors told, 'No work, no dialogue'
Government remains open to dialogue with striking doctors to find a lasting solution, but those discussions should be carried out while health workers are at work, Health and Child Care Minister Dr Ob...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 07:02hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: All Zimbabwe civil servants to go on strike
Reports coming from Harare indicate that the Civil Service Apex Council has served government with a notice of incapacitation. The Apex Council which is the highest negotiating board for civil...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Civil servants demand US$ wages
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been pushed against the wall by its restive workers who have tabled a new salary demand of at least US$475 or its equivalence of $7 267 at the prevailing ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 06:42hrs | 2369 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants seek more than 100% bonus
THE Government and representatives of civil servants will meet tomorrow in Harare for the latest round of salary talks at a time there are also indications that workers are also pushing its employer t...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:58hrs | 545 | by Staff reporter
Government, civil servants meet
Government and representatives of civil servants will meet tomorrow for the latest round of negotiations over conditions of service and bonus payments expected next month.Public Service, Labou...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:56hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warns of genocide
The health crisis entered a new and deadly phase on Thursday when nurses at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals – the country's biggest referral hospital – walked out of work, joining doctor...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 11:34hrs | 3201 | by ZimLive
Firing doctors won't ease Zimbabwe health crisis
ZIMBABWE'S health sector is mired in a crisis as public hospital doctors have been on strike for over a month. The job action has resulted in patients being turned away from hospitals while there have...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:08hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants demand urgent meeting
THE Apex Council has requested an urgent National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) meeting tomorrow, to map a way forward on salaries that correspond with the continuously escalating cost of living. ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 06:40hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Labour Court to rule on doctors' strike
The Labour Court is this afternoon expected to make a determination on the legality of the 36-day mass job action by medical doctors who have repeatedly snubbed the employer's plea to return to work. ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 06:30hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Striking doctors dig in
ZIMBABWE'S health crisis continues to slide down the precipice, with doctors at public hospitals yesterday vowing to extend their industrial action, promising to report for duty today, but not giving ...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 09:32hrs | 1544 | by Staff reporter
Doctors exit the Health Apex Council
Striking junior doctors might not be able to negotiate their conditions of service going forward following their latest decision to exit the Health Apex Council, which represents not only them, but th...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 09:15hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Doctors reject US$150 salaries
Zimbabwe doctors have rejected the Government offer of a 60% wage increase, which would have taken their wages up to US$150 per month.The doctors who staged a demonstration at Parirenyatwa Hos...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 09:11hrs | 1302 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe doctors to defy government ultimatum to return to work
Striking doctors on Sunday vowed to press on with their job boycott, despite getting an ultimatum to return to work by Monday at 0800hrs.Doctors say the government's offer of a 60 percent sala...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 20:48hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean doctors' salaries pegged between $8 000 and $11 000
THE Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Obadiah Moyo, has brokered a deal with striking doctors by offering them a 60 percent increase in allowances and ordered all health workers to report to work ...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:09hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Doctors ordered back to work
DOCTORS in public health institutions have been awarded a 60 percent increment as Government yesterday issued a directive that they abandon their industrial action and return to duty by tomorrow....Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:01hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
New union for judiciary workers
JUDICIARY workers have formed a new union, Judiciary Employees Union of Zimbabwe, to defend them against arbitrary dismissals and transfers after being left out of the Apex Council.Secretary-g...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 08:01hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF slams doctors' strike
ZANU-PF has condemned the ongoing strike by doctors and other health workers, saying their unilateral decision to withdraw their services and suspend all Health Services Bipartite Negotiating Panel me...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Health workers down tools over abducted colleague
The Health Apex Council yesterday said its members were downing tools starting today until the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors' Association (ZHDA) acting president Peter Magombeyi, who was abducted by suspe...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants cry foul
CIVIL servants have called on the Government to set a framework that safeguards the value of salaries following the latest adjustments that have triggered significant price increases. Governme...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 05:42hrs | 2383 | by Staff reporter
Varsity employees get salary hike
GOVERNMENT has hiked salaries for State university workers in a move that will see cleaners at institutions of higher learning earning more than teachers and college lecturers.Acting Higher an...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:12hrs | 2820 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi calls for dialogue
Vice President Kembo Mohadi yesterday called for more dialogue between the Health Services Board and the Health Apex Council while Government continues to find a lasting solution to concerns raised by...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctors threatened over strike
Suspected state security agents have allegedly been sending threatening messages to leaders of unions representing doctors in a bid to force the medical professionals to drop plans to go on strike on ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:02hrs | 923 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe demonstrations - like sanctions - are not targeted
IT is hoped that several developments in the past week or so will finally open people's eyes to see that party politics is the only game in town; that politics is not the only thing worth concerning o...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:22hrs | 793 | by Conway Tutani
Mnangagwa govt pay offer divides civil servants
SHARP divisions have emerged within the civil service following the decision by the Apex Council to accept a paltry 76% pay hike from their employer at a time the workers wanted an over 400% pay hike....Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 3233 | by Staff reporter
Workers' unions want salary review formula
THE Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) should come up with formulae to review salaries and cushion workers in line with prevailing inflationary trends at a particular given time, the Zimbabwe Congress...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:30hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Government congratulates civil servants for accepting USD$100 salaries
The Government of Zimbabwe has congratulated civil servants for accepting the new salaries that have been pegged at an equivalent of USD$100 for the lowest paid worker. Deputy Government Spoke...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 13:50hrs | 8626 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Civil servants in Mnangagwa salary U-turn
ZIMBABWE'S impoverished civil servants yesterday made a volte-face and embraced a 76% salary adjustment made by their employer, hardly a week after they scoffed at the offer, describing it as falling ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 2073 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants accept Mnangagwa pay offer
THE National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) yesterday provisionally agreed that Government would pay civil servants a cost of living adjustment (COLA) ranging from 50 percent to 76 percent of their ...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants accepts 76% pay rise
Civil servants have accepted the 76% salary increase that was offered by the government last week Friday. The Apex Council had initially reserved its right to accept the offer and said it want...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 06:36hrs | 3762 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Civil servants reject pay rise
GOVERNMENT has awarded a 76% salary hike to its restive workers, a move which will see the lowest paid civil servant getting around $1 000 per month, but civil servants' representative body, the Apex ...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
BREAKING: Civil servants salaries increased to $1,023
The Civic Servants Apex Council has announced that the Zimbabwean government has awarded civil servants a 76 percent salary hike with effect from 1 August 2019.In a statement on Friday the Ape...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 17:04hrs | 10930 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Huge payout plan for civil servants
GOVERNMENT is understood to be preparing a "meaningful offer" for civil servants as it seeks to address the challenges they face of high prices of goods and services. The offer is set to be ta...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1537 | by Staff reporter
Government, labour back to negotiating table
GOVERNMENT will this week bring its employees under the auspices of the Apex council to the negotiating table to discuss the August to December cost of living adjustments.This comes after Gove...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:38hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU fights for NSSA board representation
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is headed for a clash with Public Service minister Sekai Nzenza amid indications the union's choice to represent workers' interests on the board of the Nat...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:02hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants chide 'inconsiderate' Mthuli Ncube
CIVIL servants have chided Finance minister Mthuli Ncube for saying he will pay them full bonuses in November at a time impoverished government workers desperately need a salary review to be able to s...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:55hrs | 3772 | by Staff reporter
Teachers make new threats
TEACHERS have vowed not to return to work at the beginning of this year's third term if government fails to review their current salaries to match a purchasing value of US$550 before government abando...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 21:56hrs | 2597 | by Staff reporter
Second term, a term that never was
The long winter which we predicted at the beginning of second term has assumed permanency in the education sector. Our second term never really kicked off, learning was erratic and there seem to be no...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by ARTUZ
The real reason why Civil Servants are being neglected!
The standard of living for the generality of the people of Zimbabwe has worsened and the ordinary citizen now survives on less than US0.35 cents per day. The Government of Zimbabwe is however reluctan...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:29hrs | 3628 | by Pongo
Mnangagwa to recruit more teachers
GOVERNMENT has recruited the last batch of nearly 350 new teachers to fulfil a 3 000 quota allocated by Treasury this year, amid fresh revelations the education sector might engage at least 5 000 more...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
World body condemns Zimbabwe over poor state of teachers
THE World's biggest sectoral union federation, Education International (EI), has criticised the Zimbabwean government over the deteriorating labour situation and poor welfare of teachers.EI is...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 757 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's Supplementary Budget next week
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube is next week expected to unveil his mid-year Fiscal Review and Supplementary Budget Statement to give impetus to the Transitional Stabi...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1382 | by Staff reporter
Teachers appeal for wages above poverty line
TEACHERS unions, represented by the Zimbabwe Teachers' Union (Zimta) and the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), yesterday demanded that government pays salaries above the poverty datum li...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 13:56hrs | 1438 | by Staff reporter
Teachers close schools over slaries
Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has reported that its members have successfully heeded the call to go for an early holiday after the government failed to raise their salaries....Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 10:56hrs | 7559 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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