GOVERNMENT has turned down a request by civil servants' unions to recognise the old Apex Council to spearhead salary negotiations. Civil servants' unions recently wrote to Public Service Minister Lucia Matibenga imploring her to give a fresh three-month mandate to the old Tendai Chikowore-led executive to revive salary negotiations.
Minister Matibenga, however, turned down the request and ordered the workers' representatives to legally reconstitute the body that represents civil servants.
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