The Zambia National Union of Teachers (ZNUT) in Eastern Province says it is not happy with government for removing teacher’s responsibility and double class allowances.
Regional Chairperson, Alakwisa Phiri said it was sad that teachers who were supposed to be motivated this time around had their allowances removed from their pay.
Mr Phiri noted that the way teachers could be motivated was through such allowances, adding that the extra labour which teachers put in during their work was being appreciated through such allowances.
He said government should have made an assessment to find out who was eligible and not eligible to get the allowances before deciding to remove them.
“Teachers are bitter with the removal of the double class and responsibility allowances because this is where they get motivation for the extra work they are putting in,” Mr Phiri said.
He observed that some rural schools did not have adequate number of teachers and the few educationists that were there were teaching more than one grade and they needed the double class allowances.
Mr Phiri said the union did not expect the pronouncement to remove allowances from teachers’ payroll by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education who he said knew the shortage of teachers in some schools and the extra work they were putting in.
He said cleaning the payroll did not require automatic removal of everything, saying as the union was asking teachers to continue teaching, government should immediately pay arrears after sorting out everything.
Mr Phiri warned that if anything happened as a result of government’s refusal to give teachers their arrears, the union should not be held responsible with the move the teachers would take.
He also said teachers were not happy with the purported salary increments, adding that after making calculations it was realised that the salaries would still be little by the time the teachers start getting them in September this year owing to the increment of prices in most essential commodities.
Some teachers asked by ZANIS revealed that KR 500-00 double class and KR 500-00 responsibility allowances were removed from their payroll by government.
This means that some teachers who have been getting both allowances, have had KR 1000-00 allowances deducted from their payroll.
They also said retention allowance was scrapped off from their pay two years ago without explanation to date.
Government is in the process of cleaning up the payroll of teachers by removing ghost workers starting by removing the responsibility and double class allowances from their pay.
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Our government has failed! They jst want money for ministers and deputies who do practically nothing! Cry mother Zambia cry! Is this the change pipo wanted?
don complain mother f*88kerz thats what u voted for now stop complaining and dance to the tunes till 2016
The Governement is not sinsere in its dealings. The want to save and use the surplus to pay for BYE elections and missuse funds generally. It does not make sense cause you could have asked for 4 more than 40% salary increment so that it takes care of any offshoot un expectected governement removal of subsidy. Well let see how far they can go. Just vote them out.. You did it on UNIP and did on MMD so give the door out just after one term
There are some i.diots among us who will try to support and defend this.
Teachers are the ones who mostly suported this stupid govt,so they shouldmt cry pf slogan clearly says dont kubeba thus means that let teachers vote for us but dont tell them what will hapen in the future as what has hapen today
They are feeling the effects of increasing civil service salaries and increasing minimum wages as the money has now run out PF political failures.
This move has really made me frustrated as one of those teachers who is affected.First they removed extra duty and now its responsibility in total altogether about K1000,the cost of living has sharply risen and yet our pay is being reduced with impunity.PF in government Sivintu.
Teachers should not be complaining about the behavior of the minister they themselves made. You unanimously campaigned for sata and pf despite his character and style of doing things being the kind motivated for purpose of stealing, killing and destroying. You reap what you sow. Congratulations teachers for loosing those allowances.
Wat a shame no wander i dont teach any more .you wanna raise money reduce gov size 80 minsters is rediculous for 13 million pipo not even the US has that many with apopulation of 350million. Give the teachers the respect they deserve in case the they didnt know teacher ngatalipo bonse nibangwele. Wow cry my beloved country wat did you get in too mawe twapenga.
Teachers who were celebrating last month have cried foul today?? Ni Donchi kubeba ka?? This Poor Fools have taken Zambia for a ride, get rid of that ka Roy Mwaba.! The Chap is owez praising PoorFailures is that his role??? Chakupapa!
THE MMD GOVERNMENT (2008)
Ministers:
75,117,124 Salary
26,382,673 Special allowance
26,680,000 Utility allowance
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128,179,797 x 24 = ZK3,076,315,128
Deputy Ministers:
70,953,196 Salary
24,107,904 Special allowance
26,680,000 Utility allowance
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121,741,100 x 43 = ZK5,234,867,300
Total expenditure:
3,076,315,128
5,234,867,300
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K 8,311,182,428
Source of Raw Data: The Amended Presidential Emolument Bill No. 18 of 2008
THE PF GOVERNMENT (2013):
Cabinet Minister:
149, 938,472 Salary
38,380,194 Special allowance
38,812,730 Utility allowance
—————-
227,131,396 x 20 = ZK4,542,627,920.
Deputy Minister:
141,626,993 Salary
35,070,974 Special allowance
38,812,730 Utility allowance
—————-
215,510,697 x 53 =…
teachers should just be on go slow mpaka they bring back these allowances. bala belesha bamabala.
Get rid of the monthly wage. Introduce the hourly wage. Everybody puts in a 40 hour a week. Anything above that makes them overtime. Govt don’t steal from us and we don’t steal from the govt. Period. A 2.5% yearly increment must be introduced. Allowances cause disruptions financially once taken away. Zambia lets move on to workable solutions.