Zimbabwean Govt to Retrench Workers

The government will sack thousands of workers as it seeks to cut an unsustainable wage bill.

  • Zimbabwe:   Govt to Cut Wage Bill

    The Herald, 17 December 2014

    Government will start retrenching thousands of civil servants next year as part of a grand strategy to reduce the ever ballooning salary bill that has threatened capital projects,… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Govt Fails to Pay Workers in Time

    The Herald, 17 December 2014

    The Public Service Commission yesterday announced changes in the December pay dates for civil servants that is expected to see salaries being paid earlier than previously… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Lecturers Yet to Receive Nov Salaries

    New Zimbabwe, 7 December 2014

    STATE university lecturers have not yet received their November salaries, almost two weeks after their pay date. Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Nation Desperately Needs Foreign Investors

    Zimbabwe Independent, 5 December 2014

    Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Patrick Chinamasa presented his 2015 national budget last Thursday against a background of significantly weakening economic… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Govt Backdates Civil Servants' Rentals

    The Herald, 3 December 2014

    GOVERNMENT has started deducting rentals backdated to 2009 from civil servants living in its houses. The employer traditionally deducts rentals from its employees but had stopped… Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   No Bonus, No Xmas Cheer for Workers

    Zimbabwe Standard, 30 November 2014

    "Jonasi nhasi akadziruma, atambira bonus yake iwe... Inonzi bonus, wapenga nayo bonus! (Jonas is rich today; he has just received his bonus... his bonus has made him crazy!)". Read more »

  • Zimbabwe:   Poor Salaries Fuel Corruption - Chidyausiku

    New Zimbabwe, 3 December 2014

    JUSTICE Godfrey Chidyausiku has said it is very difficult for the endemic corruption in the country to end because of the government's non-commitment to fulfil the conditions of… Read more »

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Striking government workers (file photo).

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