Drama as riot police seal HICC to stop PSMAS AGM from going ahead
Riot police on Thursday morning sealed off the HICC to stop the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) AGM from going ahead.
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Riot police on Thursday morning sealed off the HICC to stop the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) AGM from going ahead.
The Government will tomorrow convene a meeting with its technical team and experts to deliberate on civil servants’ salaries ahead of a crunch meeting with the workers representatives after failing to reach an agreement on the initial meeting at the beginning of the month.
Government has for the second month running paid salaries to uniformed forces including the secret service that are almost double what ordinary civil servants are currently earning, Nehanda Radio has established.
The crunch meeting between government and civil servants ended in a deadlock yesterday after the workers rejected a “paltry” 25% offer tabled by their employer.
Government yesterday agreed to meet its restive workers today to hammer out a salary deal to avert a crippling strike.
The Public Service Commission (PSC) on Thursday said Government Employees’ Mutual Savings (GEMS) fund and Garrison shops deductions are voluntary, adding no civil servant will be forced to contribute 2.5% of their basic salaries to the scheme.
Civil servants who have benefited from the Government’s motor vehicle scheme will not be eligible to benefit again for the next five years, the Public Service Commission (PSC) has said.
Government has undertaken to pay severance packages as well as offering entrepreneurial skills to over 3 700 national youth service workers fired from the civil service by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube.