NEGOTIATIONS for civil servants salaries, which stalled last year due to the wage freeze imposed on the civil service will resume this week.
ZCTU secretary general Cosmas Mukuka confirmed in an interview that Cabinet had written to his organisation indicating that salary talks would commence this week.
Mr Mukuka however said that his organisation had since called for a meeting with its affiliate unions this Thursday to discuss which talks exactly Government would hold with the unions this week.
He however did not state the exact date of the re-opening of the salary talks with the Government scheduled for this week.
The negotiations come in the wake of the lifting of the wage freeze by President Lungu this month.
President Lungu lifted the two year wage freeze that was imposed on public service workers.
The President made the pronouncements at the Labour Day celebrations on May 1, and directed Labour and Social Security minister Fackson Shamenda to begin negotiations with the unions.
The wage freeze which was proposed in the 2013 budget has been a contentious issue between the Government and the unions.
Earlier this year the ZCTU said it was engaging president Edgar Lungu over the two year wage freeze which Government had imposed on public service workers to find a lasting solution.
Last year ZCTU threatened to organize countrywide mass demonstrations if government did not lift the wage freeze imposed on the civil service.
They will be wasting their time & energies, PF is visionless. They are hiding $192 million borrowed from China for their belly consumption these PF gluttonous bandits.
The Skeleton Key
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Who doesn’t know that the PF Govt is broke?
Hey! Zambians, why are you so forgetful. What’s there to be happy about that the wage freeze has been lifted?
There is no lifting done here, he is only playing on the dullness of as many as are ready to be fulled.
How have people forgotten that the wage freeze was to run for two years from 2014 to 2016 according to the 2014 budget which was passed in 2013 by mr chikwanda.
They are saying negotiations should start now and end in December, 2015. Ah! surely, what kind of cheap politicking is this?
They are done with inflicting pain on poor civil servants while their hefty allowances they make every day for doing their official duties were untouched.
Can there be anything for you if you remain in humble service of this country?
How do civil service union expect to negotiate salaries when the government is very broke. The government is extremely broke than it was in 2013. If the president was very sincere concerning salary negotiation, then it means the government is going to borrow money, more likely from China or it will print more money. It is a waste of time negotiating wages and salaries because Zambia may become bankrupt – we may end up being sold to the Chinese. The Chinese know what they want from Zambia they will keep giving us loans, one day they will demand that they will start mining copper and taking it to China. The Chinese will start giving shots to our government. It is very dangerous to be a minister of finance or Governor of the Bank of Zambia
Zambians, let us be very wise and avoid being smeared with lies in the name of salary increase. what we need is a stable economy and not to survive on borrowed money. Please please, let us read the signs of time so that twishala muli mwamoneni. God help Zambia. we are tired of a cosmetic kind of life. God help Zambia.