Government workers in Mpulungu in Northern Province have still not been paid their August salaries.
The workers, who are under the Provincial Administration Northern Province (PANP) and still on the old GRZ payroll system, confirmed the development yesterday.
They said government has delayed in disbursing their August salaries despite their colleagues in the system having received their dues about three weeks ago.
They complained that since government changed to the new payroll system (PERMEC) about two years ago, the problem of delayed salaries had persisted, adding that sometimes they go for nearly two months without being paid.
The workers, who are drawn from different government departments, complained that the development is demoralizing and negatively affecting their performance in their respective work places because they are on several occasions forced to leave their offices in search of money to feed their families.
They accused government of blatant abuse of the employment act and the labour laws.
The workers, who sought anonymity, have since appealed to the Civil Servants Union of Zambia (CSUZ) to help resolve their plight.
And a check this morning at Finance Bank Mpulungu Branch where the civil servants are paid from revealed that not even a payment schedule for the workers’ salaries had been received.
ZANIS
what else’s is new
These same Civil Servants come 2011 will vote for RB……….that’s Zed for you
But PEMEC is supposed to b better and more efficient. In fact, there is supposed to be a PEMEC office in Kasama. Wats happening?
Nothing surprising about this one. This is the “development” espoused and promoted by MMD. Yet, people keep supporting them. Get real people, MMD is full of hot air and rhetoric.