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Zimbabwe, which has not been able to pay more than 300,000 state workers on time this year, will start firing employees at its agriculture ministry, as it seeks to trim a civil service where wages absorb more than 80% of government revenue. The state-controlled Herald newspaper on Wednesday reported that 8,252 posts at the ministry, […]
The civil service rationalisation exercise has started paying dividends as recommendations effected so far are set to cut the Government wage bill by $300 million this year.
By Zvamaida Murwira At least 13 000 people have been rendering service to Government but have not been captured on its pay system, creating an obligation of more than $84 million per year in salary arrears to the already cash-squeezed Treasury, a Civil Service audit report has revealed. The audit reveals that 96 percent of […]
By John Kachembere HARARE – Despite public protestations to the contrary, President Robert Mugabe’s cash-strapped government is moving with speed to identify and retrench tens of thousands of civil servants in a bid to contain its ballooning wage bill that is sucking most of its resources, the Daily News on Sunday has established. Finance minister […]
HARARE – Vocal Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister Patrick Zhuwao has vowed to protect youth brigades — the ruling Zanu PF’s political shock troopers — under his ministry who constitute a significant number of the 75 000 ghost workers on the government payroll.
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has allayed fears that government was moving to retrench civil servants over 50 years of age, explaining that the ongoing civil service audit aims to slash the wage bill by weeding out “ghost workers”.
By Felex Share Civil servants must brace for major changes in the coming few weeks following the submission of the civil service manpower audit report, which contains a host of recommendations to plug unnecessary expenditure, to President Mugabe yesterday. The audit report, compiled by the Civil Service Commission at the instruction of Cabinet, will guide […]
By Felex Share Government says the onus is on the 3 000 civil servants struck off the payroll last month to prove they are bona fide workers to have their salaries reinstated. This comes amid reports that some civil servants were drawing salaries without setting foot at their workstations, while several schools, especially in rural […]
GOVERNMENT is making moves to do away with ghost workers in its institutions in order to release more resources towards critical functions.
PRESS STATEMENT – Government has announced that it is starting an exercise to downsize its bloated civil service. The civil service was ostensibly bloated by the so-called Zanu PF ward officers, a euphemism for Border Gezi youths who are paid for unleashing reign of terror in the community.