Government workers have rejected the Government’s salary adjustment offer which would have seen the least-paid earning ZW$13 590 (US$167).
Grade C5 was offered ZW$14 105 (US$174), grade D1 $15 077 (US$186) and grade E1 $16 430 (US $201).
The offer was tabled and rejected during salary negotiations in the capital, Harare, on Tuesday.
Instead, the civil servants want the least-paid to get US$520 or the equivalent in Zimbabwe dollars which they were earning back in 2018.
In a communiqué after the meeting, their representatives said:
The workers’ side flatly rejected the offer for falling short of addressing the incapacitation of civil servants.
Talks are expected to continue this week.
Workers have since last year embarked on a spate of industrial action to force the government to restore the value of their salaries which has over the past twenty-four-hours been eroded by inflation.
Salary talks come when teachers who refused to return to work when schools reopened on 28 September have vowed not to return to work citing incapacitation.
They are currently earning an equivalent of about US$30 per month.
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