Some political parties have promised to increase the minimum wage for workers in the country if voted into office.
The United Party for National Development –UPND- says its government will raise the minimum wage from the current K419 000 to 1, 400, 00.00 Kwacha.
The Zambians for Empowerment and Development -ZED- has promised to up the minimum wage to over a one million Kwacha.
Speaking on a ZNBC Television programme titled ‘The Manifesto’, UPND representative James Muyangana said the change is important to provide a decent minimum wage for its people.
And ZED representative Reverend Jericho Sikwila says there is need for workers in the country to be satisfied.
And National Restoration Party representative, Mbita Sumbwe says his party will improve conditions for both expatriates and Zambian workers.
The panel was discussing the topic ‘Labor and Social Securities’.
[ZNBC]
Malabishi
I thought HH said minimum wage will K5Million.
ba LT icisungu calipitila apatali. Cileshupila kumo nokulemba K1,400,000.00. F**kin
One surprising thing is,HH has a number of companies,but he does not pay them K5,000,000.00 Some of his employees in profit making companies get as low as K500,000.00.Now,where is the logic in what this man is saying?
HH has pegged K5,000,000.00 as the minimum for anyone in the civil service.Then, HH’s UPND has pegged K1,400,000.00 as the minimum wage for those outside the civil service.See the disparity,does it make sense?Are those in the civil service more human than those in the private sector and government owned companies?Are the needs and requirements of those in the civil service different from others?
HH!!!!!Free education up to university,a thing which is non existent even in developed countries like USA,UK,etc.Free fertilizer to the farmers country-wide for three years.Guys,wake up,this HH can turn Zambia upside-down the way Idi Amin Dada did Uganda.Watch out.
Number 4 – if the minimum wage was raised,he will equally be compelled to up the salaries. Thats the simple explanation you PF Kaponya like Wynter Maebo and Maiko Psycho Mata
If thats the minimum wage even for maids, then we shall also have much bigger salaries. but would they buy the same amount of goods? We could be trillionaires like zimbabweans but their currency is useless so wages have to be defined in absolute values and defined.
Ka HH kali sucker sana guys.TOO MUCH HYPOCRISY ka mambala kalya.
only foolish pipo fail to interprete what upnd stands for, we are saying grz workers min k5m, not in grz min k1.4m, full stop! the private sector will be forced to pay its employees decent pays. get it? viva real change , viva HH
we need an economist this time around, not jokers like sata( a cop). we want economical freedom. cops are known for witch hunting
Same kind of lies Banda the son of a dog has been telling Zambia. Fcuk him.
Politicians should first up their politics before they lie about what they don’t understand. Learn from well developed democracies where candidates are expected to say what they offer, how that would be achieved as well as sustained -Who doesn’t know that people need higher wages?
When did we start using American spellings in Zambia?I thought in our school days when yu use such spellings you were bound to obtaining a Zero score?
Don’t we use the Queen’s language anymore?
HH also wants to increase the minimum per session rate of prostitutes from 50 pin to 150 pin. This is in the hope that it might discourage men from indulging and eventually reduce the AIDS pandemic
If the minimum wage is increased by that much, has someone thought obout the reciprical effect of such a decision? MPs gratuity goes up, inflation goes up, prices of comodities go up and govt goes broke, then prints more money and the cycle goes on. What matters to me is the REAL value of the money I make, not the figure. There is no point point of being a millionaire in Zim $