Civil servants in Mungwi district are up in arms with the local union leaders for failing to facilitate payment of rural and remote hardship allowances by government.
And the affected civil servants have given government two weeks in which to pay them their outstanding hardship allowances failure to which they will go on strike until their demands are met.
They charged that their local union leadership has completely failed to push government to clear the said allowances since April this year which government and the labour movement agreed upon.
But the Civil Servants and Allied Workers Union (CSAWUZ) in the district has said it was not true that the Labour movement was sitting idle over the payment of rural and remote hardship to some of the workers in Mungwi district.
CSWUZ Branch Chairperson, Grace Yaluma said the union was fully aware of the discrepancy with regard to the payment of hardship allowances to government workers in Mungwi.
Mrs. Yaluma said as far as the union in the district was concerned it had done all the paper work regarding those who had not received rural and remote hardship allowances from April this year and forwarded to relevant authorities.
She said the union was also concerned at the alleged delay by government to give the affected workers the allowances.
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