Civil servants declare strike
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and his Labour ministry counterpart Sekai Nzenza are in a quandary as civil servants yesterday declared a massive demonstration next Wednesday over unfulfilled promises by government.
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Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and his Labour ministry counterpart Sekai Nzenza are in a quandary as civil servants yesterday declared a massive demonstration next Wednesday over unfulfilled promises by government.
GOVERNMENT has fended off a potentially crippling industrial action in the civil service after President Emmerson Mnangagwa assented to a pay raise for the restive workers effective next month.
The cash-strapped Zanu PF government has brought forward January pay dates for civil servants in a desperate attempt to appease restless public sector workers who will join a growing strike if the government does not agree to pay them in U.S. dollars.
By MacDonald Dzirutwe | Reuters | Zimbabwe has stopped hiring new state workers after failing to pay its soldiers and teachers on time, according to an official notice, as President Robert Mugabe’s government struggles with a big financial squeeze. The southern African nation dumped its hyperinflation-hit currency in 2009 and adopted the U.S. dollar, but it […]
By Helen Kadirire HARARE – The festive season has become a ginormous nightmare for the majority of civil servants as President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke administration is failing to pay them not just their promised end-of-year bonuses, but their December salaries as well. Under-pressure Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, had the unenviable task of announcing on Christmas […]