News:Government Rejects Chinamasa's Proposals Again. Assures Civil Servants Will Get Their Bonuses
<vote /> In a move similar to last year's, Government has reassured civil servants that they will receive their annual bonuses and that there will be no reduction of their salaries and allowances as announced by Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa last Thursday.
Government yesterday said Cabinet had rejected the proposals when Minister Chinamasa presented them on July 12 this year and they should not have been factored into the statement.
In a statement yesterday, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Christopher Mushohwe said it had become necessary to clarify Government’s position in view of genuine concerns within the civil service on their conditions of service and job security and on farmers in respect of agricultural pricing for the 2016-2017 maize crop.
Mushohwe said,
For the record, the above proposals were tabled before Cabinet by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development on July 12, 2016 as part of cost-cutting measures to facilitate economic recovery. After extensive deliberations, cost-cutting measures relating to the civil service were rejected and the position of Cabinet is that the Minister of Finance and Economic Development did not take into account the rejection by Cabinet earlier on. Once again, at the last Cabinet of 12 September, 2016 the proposals were rejected. The President and Cabinet want to assure the civil servants, the farmers and the public at large that these proposed measures are not friendly operative. It is hoped that this clarification puts to rest anxieties that may have arisen within civil service, the farming community and the public at large.
Last year Robert Mugabe rejected Chinamasa's proposal to forgo bonuses even though Government struggled to pay them with the majority of the civil service receiving their thirteenth cheque this year. At the time Mugabe said,
It is disgusting to us. It was never a government policy not to pay civil servants bonuses. My Vice Presidents (Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko) and I were shocked to hear about that. It never came to our attention. We were never consulted. So I Want to say to the civil servants your bonuses will come to you as usual.
Of late Government has been struggling to pay the civil service, which according to Chinamasa's Midterm Fiscal Review gobbles 96.8% of Government revenue.
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