Govt cornered over salaries

GOVERNMENT was yesterday forced to postpone the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) meeting to today after its departments failed to reach a consensus on the proposed offer to its workers.

Zimbabwe’s public workers, who have been all along demanding pre-October 2018 salaries of US$540 now want to be paid US$840 due to the high cost of living in the country and stubbornly high inflation.

The NJNC meeting was scheduled to be held at 10 o’clock in in the morning yesterday before it was postponed to 2 o’clock in the afternoon after government requested more time to deliberate on its offer. 

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