Civil Servants have been awarded a salary increment of K500 across the board effective January 1st 2025.
Announcing the development at a media briefing, Union Representative Joy Beene disclosed that the 23 Unions and government agreed to award civil servants a five-hundred-kwacha basic salary increment after holding successful negotiations for improved salaries and conditions of service.
Mr Beene explained that the Unions decided to reach a compromise owing to the current economic challenges facing the country.
Mr Beene who was speaking on behalf of the 23 public workers Unions acknowledged that the increment may not represent the wishes of members, but encouraged members to accept the increment as it is better than nothing.
Transport allowance for public workers living with disabilities has been increased from twenty percent to thirty five percent of the basic salary effective January 1st, 2025.
Mr Beene pointed out that the first-time members with disabilities have been awarded an increment after crying for ten years.
Other allowances that have been increased for public workers include meal allowance from K130 to K150 , while the repatriation allowance has been increased by K1,300 effective January 1st, 2025.
Mr Beene has since thanked members of various Unions for the patience and understanding before and during the bargaining stage.
ZANIS
Hopefully this will do away with lunch money and fast track which is common across all departments now
Now women will fatten themselves more by eating out at lunch in markets. Instead of taking own food.
Wrong approach, HH should have been offering 2 free bags of Maize meal, instead of money.
He could be more popular and families would benefit.
shameful
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k500 and people are celebrating when that money is just a bag of mealie meal. We do not need handouts but improved living standards as promised. The whole country is in a mess because of one egocentric man.
Expect inflation to increase, the effect will ripple across the economy
There are other incentives that could have been used.
It’s very easy to please a Zambian….five hundred kwacha won’t take anywhere….loan rates have been increased and definitely other services will go up followed by high food prices.
I have seen on other platforms people saying BALLY WAKULEKAFYE. Just one month this 500 will be worthless.
Other platforms are far more informative
this Mwamba is not the right person to talk
But the fact remains HH did give false promises
Its known lies will always catch up with you
Tikki
Show me a politician, the world over,………
Who has fulfilled all his election promises, and………
I will show you heaven and paradise…….
Forwadee 2031…..
Deja Vu November 14,
“….I have seen on other platforms people saying BALLY WAKULEKAFYE. Just one month this 500 will be worthless….”
Come 2026, you will be shocked, even those kaponyas you encourage each other with to hate , will be wearing red……
Forwadee 2031…….
What I loathe and lament is the fall in standards of journalism in Zambia. You just cant report in such a riff raff manner!
” salary increment of K500 across the board”? K500 per annum or per month? And what is across the board? Thabo Kawana as well as his office orderly will all get K500? per year or pay month?
And as far as I know in Zambia there’s a difference between Civil servants and Public Servants. I think Council workers are referred to as Public workers while those employed by Ministries are civil servants. but the reporter has made no effort to explain to us who is who in this K500 manna. Is it dropping from Patrick Kangwa, Choolwe Beyani, Ackson Sejani or from Peter Mumba?
Tikki – not true.
lies have miserably failed to catch up with Donald Trump
Increments have already been overtaken by rapidly rising inflation. So, too little too late!
It’s not much but better than nothing.At least it
Can help in this challenging times.
That’s an extra bag of meal meal for every working zambian family……….
Bally does not gift caders , instead he gifts hard working Zambians to hopfully provide better service delivery………
By end of 2025, most economic measures will have kicked in, were it not gor the worst draught ever, Zambians would have been picking the fruits of prudent management……..
Forwardee 2031………
Loans galore.
What percentage does that now take GRZ wages and loans to of our GDP
Laughable. That money has already gone to union contributions. Just like the labour movement market has been liberalized, the Law that compels some category of workers to belong to a union must be repealed. Those that don’t wish to subscribe to any union must be allowed because now there’s no benefit. The proliferation of unions has seen even money being stolen from workers’ salaries as deductions are made by unions they don’t subscribe to, especially teachers. The levels of lawlessness continue to grow
Joy in the NEW DOOM!
Fimbaupoke
K500 today less than $20 a month. Big deal.
@ spaka
I really admire your loyalty to HH which I dont share now I used to give you 100’s of thumbs up
However i have seen the light >> now in a nice way you would do well teaching the gospels as one also needs blind faith to understand religion
Its not loyalty to HH. Its driven by a loyalty to their Tonga tribe
Tikki
It’s loyality to good governance……
There is no alternative to HH……..
Forwadee 2031……..
My Kalange
I’m not even tonga…….kwasu kwa madede…..chief musolo
Forwadee 2031….
@Spaka I wonder why you’re masquerading as a Cheba with that broken language you’re displaying. Just stick to Gwembe valley
thank you. This is the listening Govt