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Latest Govt Salary "Offer" Too Little - Teachers

1 year agoSat, 01 Jul 2023 14:39:20 GMT
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Latest Govt Salary "Offer" Too Little - Teachers

Unions representing teachers have dismissed the reported latest salary offer by the Government as too little to meet members’ basic needs.

Last weekend Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Paul Mavima said the Government will soon table a new salary offer for civil servants at the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC).

Reports claim that the Government plans to increase civil servants’ earnings to a minimum of US$400 when allowances are factored in.

The Government reportedly arrived at the figure without consulting civil servants’ representatives.

Speaking in separate interviews with NewsDay, unions representing teachers bemoaned their employer’s “unilateralism.”

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Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe leader Obert Masaraure said:

A salary increment should be tabled at a collective bargaining platform, where the workers and employer haggle around and agree on a bargaining agreement. That agreement should be the one published.

The employer should meet all union representatives to discuss conditions of service.

The minister is also usurping the powers of the Public Service Commission. Section 203(1) of the national Constitution mandates the Public Service Commission (PSC) to fix conditions of service for civil servants, not the minister.

Such conditions should be fixed in line with section 65(5) which provides for the right to collective bargaining.

We also reject any increment which doesn’t match the basket of needs for teachers. We have done the calculations and come up with a minimum of US$1 260.

Educators Union of Zimbabwe secretary-general Tapedza Zhou said:

The salary increment was long overdue, hence should have been done yesterday.

As a union, we don’t believe in NJNC whose mandate has long ceased to exist.

We actually believe that US$540 is not negotiable, since it was our pre-October 2018 earnings, and what we could negotiate is additional income above that.

Meanwhile, speaking to ZimLive on Thursday, Mavima dismissed the reports claiming that the Government has already prepared a new salary package for civil servants.

In April, the Government unilaterally awarded civil servants an additional US$50 in allowances and a 100% Zimbabwe dollar salary increment which has since been rendered meaningless by galloping inflation.

Civil servants earn US$250 in allowances and a regular wage of ZW$100,000, which is just US$10 if converted using prevailing exchange rates.

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17 Comments

Charles WaBusy · 1 year ago
The problem is that these Unions fleece teachers for doing nothing. You see Majongwe quoting section 65 of the Labour Act, but he is ignorant that some provisions of that Act do not apply as stated in section 3 of the Labour Act. Only provisions of the Public Service Act govern salary negotiations for public service. The PSC has the final say in the event of an impasse
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Chinokwana inguva , ngatimirirei nguva
Mhofela · 1 year ago
Ini hangu handione chinobatsira maUnion,havana kana deal avo vanotokanganisa system
anonymous · 1 year ago
Sanctions have made it difficult to increase the salaries for civil servants. The gvt is technically broke, its revenue streams have dried up. The only option is to abandon the civil servants for the 5million rural folks who know their election candidate. Even if we give you more money none of you will vote for us. Regai tichengetere mari yenyu kune Pfumvudza imi muchadyawo zvababa venyu. ANODARO ADVISOR WEKU FINANCE ACHIROTA ARI MU BOARD MEETING YEKU MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Vanoda kuguta ivo vana Minister nevakuru vavo vasiyei vashande basa rancho vega. Basa rinofambisa nyika mberi havarigoni asi vanokara. Unoona munhu asingagoi kupasa chero form four achinzi Minister magraduates akazara achisiirwa kuti ma opposition. Ngativadzinge muhumende vagutisa vanhu avo.
Zuze · 1 year ago
@ Anonymous, taneta kunzwa nyaya yemaSanctions. Chauraya nyika is corruption. How can a whole President buy second hand helicopters at 3 times the price of new ones without going to tender and without Parliamentary approval? Sanctions my foot!
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Sa teacher unorakidza kufunga, saka ndizvo zvisingadiwe mu ZANUPF...
doug · 1 year ago
There is need by the workers to distinguish between Salary and Allowances. Unlike a salary, an allowance can be reduced or be withdrawn any time, and workers have no recourse.
Who Cares About Us? · 1 year ago
Tongai henyu varume ndimi vene vayo. Chero tikadyanana hazvinei hazvo Mwari ndiye anoziva and chekukuitai hapana ndimi munesimba, yedu miswe takapeta ikatotyoka. Regai tingopfuurawo napanyika asi kana tawanawo nyasha kungosiyawo totsvaga zvimwe zvinoraramisa mhuri. Thank you for the $250 asi musakanganwewo vanamukoma ku barrack uko. You might need them one day. ED.......
CHAWABVUNZA · 1 year ago
National Joint Negotiating Council [ NJNC ] is no longer serving its purpose. Government has since discarded it. [ ZVINOTI ZVAKA NGWARA ZVIPEI DORO ZVIROVE MAI VAZVO ]. Government engages workers unions at NJNC , but it goes on to implement figured they will have come up with at fora outside the NJNC.. It is unprofessional for government to act like that. [ THE BUSH LAWYER4CCC ].
VYBZ KARTEL · 1 year ago
One day toda $540 next makuda $1260, if the unions don't speak with one voice gvt will do whatever it likes because your lack of unity.
Godfrey Zhou · 1 year ago
those unions are useless, they always buy time, how could they demand something unreasonable,
fugu pfeee · 1 year ago
mateacher vakuita kunge ndovega vashandi. ngavangibuda chibasa chisinga bhadhare icho. kana vakamboshaya 400 usd haungatarisire kupihwa 1200usd
Anonymous · 1 year ago
Uku ndiko kurasa muromo wemunhu airova mati ha nerhekeni who don't even understand what education is.

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