ACB STAFF JOINS THE STRIKING QUEE By Lucy Mkandawire and Thom Thaba Staff for the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) have issued a 7-day ultimatum to government to raise their salaries failing which they will go on strike. The development patterns a chain of similar or related demands from other folders of civil service and government functioneries such as teachers and Judiciary Support Staff who have since gone on strike. The workers claim their employers - ACB and government have breached contract by failing to enforce what is stipulated in the ACB Staff Terms and Conditions of Service. If the employees go on strike, the development is likely to affect investigations into the ongoing Cashgate probe. In their ultimatum titled Notice of Intention to Strike dated December 1, 2-14 and served to ACBs head Lucas Kondowe, the workers have given government up to December 7 to implement what is in their conditions of service or they will go on strike come December 8. Take notice that we, the employees of the Anti-Corruption Bureau being disatisfied with the breach of contract by the Director General of the bureau vis-a-vis enforcement of terms and conditions of service, are intending to go on strike, reads part of the letter adding that: As a dispute of right, our preference was to go to court for litigation, but since the courts are almost non functional we have no choice, but comence a strike as a way of enforcing our right under the contract. According to sources, the employees want an average of 70 percent salary increament. However, the Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Goodall Gondwe has categorically said that government would not implement the salary increament requests because that would defeat the intent of harmonizing salaries across civil service. As a
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 07:32:30 +0000
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