Civil servants union demands answers on pay cheque delays
Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) officials are demanding reasons behind the delay of civil servants pay cheque this month, saying the reasons advanced by government are trivial and does not hold water.
The demand for the answers by the union officials come at a time when speculation is rife that the government is broke and cannot issue out the pay cheque for 150000 civil servants.
General Secretary of CSTU Madalitso Njolomole said the government knew of the payroll clean up long ago after completing the head count and could have put measures in place to ensure that the civil servants got their salaries on time.
“We are not convinced with the reasons. After all, the government has not released the results of the head count. Civil servants are just victims of. Inefficiencies in some offices, we are suffering because of mistiming by the Auditor General’s office,” he said.
Secretary for Treasury Ronald Mangani says in a statement the pay for civil servants would delay due to the cleaning exercise of the payroll following the head count but did not say when the civil servants will get their salaries.
At least 500 teachers were erroneously scrapped off from the pay roll, forcing them not to receive their salaries for the last three months.
The government has not disclosed how many civil servants have been dropped from the payroll following the head count.
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Koma seriously some1 getting less than USD200/ month koma kumchedwetseranso ndalamayi. Abale lets be serous for once. Just a reminder to govt that the current cost of living per month in the country for a family of 5 is USD500.
Kodi n’chifukwa chiyani ma civil servant, especially at capitol hill; saoneka otchena?
Even the youthful ones!
Ndiye umati azitchena ndi chenje cha DPP chomwechi? Fwetseke