The Zambia Union of Broadcasters and other Information disseminators ZUBID is concerned with the continued delays to pay salaries for ZNBC Workers.
ZUBID Secretary General Andrew Mpandamwike says efforts to engage management on the timely payment of salaries for ZNBC workers have reached a deadlock.
Mr Mpandamwike said what is worrying is that this trend of late payment of salaries has continued for a long time with no efforts from management to stop it.
Mr Mpandamwike said ZNBC workers have not been paid their March salaries and are now wondering when the April salary will be paid which is due in the next few days.
He said ZNBC workers are dedicated to duty and continue working under very difficult conditions and yet, management seems to NOT appreciate this.
Mr Mpandamwike said despite, their critical role we are playing in the disseminating information on the dangers of the Covid 19, ZNBC workforce feels demotivated by management inertia to pay salaries.
He said Management has also stopped paying for medical allowance, a clear abrogation of the collective agreement.
Mr Mpandamwike said in view of the hardships that the ZNBC staff is going through, We give ZNBC management a 24 hour ultimatum to pay our March salaries.
He said failure to pay the March salary by tomorrow April 09, 2020 will result in workers withdrawing labour
Mr Mpandamwike has since appealed to government through the Minister of information and Broadcasting Services to take keen interest in helping resolve the financial challenges ZNBC is facing.
ZNBC workers unpaid? Hw can that be so whn Edgar Lungu promised, wait for it, one million jobs? UNZA lecturers unpaid? Call the nation to prayer.
Self inflicted problems, when you televise tutemba praise singing parties and individuals for free, ni so chabe, all the big political parties take their money to prime or diamond TV, imagine those political 1 sponsored programmes, how much they cost?business firms have also zabukad to prime TV , because they need their advertising to reach larger audiences. Let them keep offering for mahala their services.
We need a national day of prayer…..Zambia is a “Christian” nation.
Self inflicted problems….but you run to prayer for help.
Welcome to Zambia
Continue praying or playing….meanwhile your humble “lazy bum” is busy snoring in his well ventilated office oblivious to your miseries. Nizanu ivo..!
This is the type of thing they wanted to bring to Prime TV airing programs for free in the end you fail to pay workers.
govt being the main proprietor should sort out this problem
When we tell the PF rats that the only thing you own in the name ZNBC , all revenue streams are owned 60% by star times , they don’t understand this……
The ka 40% Zambians own of those revenue streams is not enough to go round , coupled with deadNBC being a PF mouthpiece , you are in trouble.
VERY UNFORTUNATE, WITH COVID-19 HOW DO YOU SURVIVE
We have this tabled and are engaging h with the ministry. The government has concentrated resources in the fight against Corona which was unbudgeted for. So certain sectors may be disadvantaged. The ministry will resolve this. Even I have not been paid and have had to cut my salary by 30 percent as a sacrifice. Let us not politicize everything
Apart from witchcraft, there’s a lot of nepotism and dishonest at ZNBC. Each worker has somebody who brought him, if it’s a she then either they had it protected or unprotected. ZNBC unfairly competes for business with private stations even when they receive the statutory tv levy. Most income is unaccounted for. ZNBC workers scrounge like policemen for everything
VERY GOOD, KEEP BROADCASTING MORE P.F, MWIBALA PROPAGANDA!!
[email protected], you will perish like flies, once njala ya nyokola, as Covid loves to take advantage once njala batters your immune system, you shameless P.F vuvuzela’s.
THE GUYS YOU KEEP SHIELDING & PROPPING UP
BY DISSEMINATING DAILY LIES FOR, ARE EATING FROM MUKULA, 42 WHEELBARROWS, 42 MANSIONS, NA MA KICKBACKS FULL -FULL & GETTING PAID ON TIME!!
I cannot blame ZNBC journalists and staff. If they try to be professional, they get the sack. Spare a thought for these poor souls.
how do they expect them to survive without pay
KZ,EVEN IF U GO WITHOUT PAY IT IS FINE CZ U HAVE BEEN STEALING.THESE ARE THE EFFECTS OF NOT BEING TRUTHFUL.WHEN U PAY IT WILL SHOW KIKIKIKI. MULI BA LUNGU BUT ZOONA ZOONA. ANYWAY,IT IS GOOD THAT THEY SHOULD LEARN TO BE PRUDENT IN THERE REPORTING. ZNBC,STOP BEING USED BY THESE FOOLS BA PF TO DO PROPAGANDA. NJALA YANYOKOLA KA? WHERE IS THE HUMBLE LEADER? LET,HIM COME OUT NOT WHAT THESE MONKEYS ,***** ABENA KZ ,RED LIP ETC WOULD TELL US. FWABUPUBA. FIND SOLUTIONS TO IT.WHY,CAN’T BA LUNGU TELL TOP STAR TO PAY SALARIES FOR ZNBC?
KZ mufola zingati kuti mujubeko 30% ku salary
And we expect these guys to have been tax compliant since 2015?
Just pay salaries to workers – Do not give us gibblish stories. On one hand you boast of being wealthy to put more money in Zambians pockets and yet only Kaizer Zulu, Lusambo, Kampyongo, Chitalu, Davis Mwila pockets are full of money. Just wait more misery on its way – glad not there.
My heart goes out to ZNBC Employees who are so dedicated to duty under very difficult circumstances. The question is why has this trend continued? How much advertising revenue does ZNBC Make and why can’t ZNBC be autonomous in terms of resource mobilization and not always wait for the GRZ Funding. ZNBC Channels are capable of being financially viable but the problem is we have people Not ‘Thinking Outside the Box’. ZNBC needs to Strategize on how it will be financially sustainable. We cant have people working and not get paid, we are living in hard times. Boma Iyanga nepo !!
Don’t pay them,are very useless journalists
Unza workers haven’t paid March salaries too. How can you stay home when you are broke and without food?
@Nemwine no they share the blame. Most of them think journalism is a place to get unearned glory. It’s a profession for the brave. It’s not a get rich or get fame quickly job
ZNBC journalists especially are to blame for meekly giving in to oppression. If you can’t stand the heat
It is time we put everything in our country in the right order. We condemn all this happening, such times as these should have been accounted for through a budgeted contingency fund. but Zambia being a country that relies on foreign funds to cover budget deficits there is no way we can have that luxury of having a contingency fund. The contingency fund or part of the budget is what the govt can use to alleviate or mitigate uncertainties that can arise in future, it is more like planning for the future so that those people dont suffer much. That is a level we as a country need to get to where we are self sustaining and able to lend.
I am sure Chilufya is running free covid-19 ads on ZNBC and pocketing the funds…really laughable.
And yet the station that has managed to pay salaries up to date like prime tv has been closed in the public interest. Now isn’t failing to pay salaries also not in the public interest?
My sister gets goose pimples whenever she sees the enlarged image of the covid virus being fronted by ZNBC awareness clip. How can such a floral display be at the same time an obnoxious monster?may be the graphics people should’ve given it more thought