Malawi’s Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) attempted two-day strike appeared to have failed on Monday, with most workers reporting for duty. However, union leaders are still pressing their demand for increased wages. Nyasa Times correspondents in Lilongwe at Capital Hill, the seat of government, say most government departments were functioning normally and that nurses were […]
Malawi government has said it has already started addressing demands by the Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) on revising upwards salaries and improving their working conditions. The government said in a statement issued on Saturday following threats by the civil servants to on a two day strike from Monday February 11 to 12 over unmet […]
National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives (Nonm) says a two-day planned strike starting from Monday next will go ahead as government has not come up with substantial offer. The nation’s top nursing body is joining the industrial action being organised by the Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) in protest against what has been described as […]
The Malawi Government has noted with concern calls by the Civil Service Trade Union (CSTU) for a sit-in by civil servants to force Government to adjust upwards salaries and improve working conditions of civil servants. Government wishes to inform the public that the Government Negotiating Team (GNT) only received the demands of the CSTU on […]
Pressure is building on the government of President Joyce Banda as medical doctors on Thursday announced they have joined the public workers strike. In a news statement issued the doctors’ union president Dr Jerome Nkambule, the doctors said they will only maintain skeleton staff to deal with emergency cases in different public hospital across the […]
Leaders of the Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU) have strongly snubbed calls from Malawi government authorities persuading them to withdraw their plans of holding a sit in strike mid February. The CSTU President, Elia Kamphinda Banda said the strike is largely aimed to push the government to increase the workers’ salaries and improve working condition. […]
Nurses and midwives say they will support a two-day stay-away on February 11 and 12 which is being called by the Civil Servants Trade Union (CSTU). The nurses through their mother body, National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives (Nonm), have since pledged to join the strike in protest against meager salaries and poor working conditions. […]
Government employees who have accessed a Civil Servants (Government) Loan Facility through ECOBANK Malawi have complained of being victimized by the bank’s delays to promptly remit refunds after being deducted as per the loan agreement. The Government Loan Agreement with six banks in Malawi—initially with FDH Bank, Standard Bank, Malawi Savings Bank, New Building Society, National […]
President of Malawi Joyce Banda has been advised to be extra watchful when making comments about civil servants. Malawi’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) gave the advice following the President’s unfair treatment of police officers at a political podium. The President, a few days ago, also poked fun at teachers’ meager monthly salaries during a […]
A bleak festive season awaits several thousands of civil servants in the country after government failed to pay them their December salaries in time before Christmas Day. By December 24, members of staff at the Information Department, staff, ministry of justice and ministry of health were some civil servants who had not received their monthly […]
Malawi’s 170, 000 civil servants have been given a long holiday starting from December 24 to January 4. They will only report for duties on January 7. A statement from the Office of the |President and Cabinet (OPC), signed by chief secretary Bright Msaka, says the President has granted the holiday “to allow civil servants […]
Civil servants in the country now have all the reason to smile following government’s introduction of a social economic empowerment network (SEEN), an initiative aimed at promoting government employees economically. Principle Secretary in the Ministry of Gender, Women and Child Development, Dr Mary Shawa said the initiative would empower civil servants economically through the provision […]
If what vocal consumer rights activist John Kapito said on the need for President Joyce Banda to re-assess counsel she gets from closer aides is anything to go by, the Malawi’s first female President still faces a daunting task to get her first ballot election triumph in 2014, observers have indicated. On Sunday morning, the President […]
President Joyce Banda has appointed experienced civil servant Willie Samute to the position of Deputy Secretary to the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC). Samute was serving as Ministry of Health principal secretary. Now there are two deputy chief secretaries . The other one is Hawa Olga Ndilowe who took from Necton Mhura. Mhura was the Deputy Chief Secretary […]
President Joyce Banda on Friday called on all civil servants to be committed to duty for her government to fulfill its development agenda. Banda said her government might have the best of plans, but if those required to execute such plans sabotaged them, there would be no meaningful achievement. “I thank God for the dedicated […]
Malawi Government will give least paid civil servants a salary increment of over 40 percent, from July 2012, while highest paid civil servants will get just 11 percent. Deputy Minister of Finance, Ralph Jooma, told official Malawi News Agency (Mana) that the 21 percent which Finance Minister Ken Lipenga announced in parliament was an average […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda (JB) has reaffirmed her government’s ban on women civil servants from sacrificing their work time to do hip swinging and praising singing at presidential functions and other political leaders’ rallies. President Banda particularly warned primary school women teachers to desist from shunning classes in order to show their dancing prowess and […]
Opposition members of parliament have asked government to consider reviewing the salary hike of civil servants, saying the 21 percent increase announced in the budget statement is manifestly in adequate in view of the Kwacha devaluation. “I am very disappointed with the 21 per cent salary hike for civil servants. The 49 per cent devaluation […]