Government says the 419 thousand kwacha minimum wage was arrived at after thorough consultations with various stakeholders including employers and employees.
Labour Minister Austin Liato says it is sad that people especially from the opposition have continued to criticize the increment saying it is too small to meet the daily needs of an ordinary Zambian citizen.
Mr. Liato said the minimum wage was a product of government and workers because this was done after wide consultations with relevant stakeholders.
Mr. Liato told the Zambia News and Information Service -ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka, Thursday that it was premature for anyone to use the minimum wage to gain cheap political mileage.
The Labour Minister also stated that government took into account all companies who are providing employment to many Zambians before arriving at the minimum wage.
He said government could not have gone beyond the K419 000 agreed minimum wages as it could have disadvantaged some small companies.
Mr. Liato said government’s aim was to strike a balance between workers and their employers.
[ ZNBC ]
419ners!
Less than a USD 100, Sad.
Ask the chines, indian or brazilian goverments what their min wage is , if they have one and you want to pay unskilled pipo like they are in the west. Some of you just want cash manee in your pockets for nothing as promised by Sata. If that manee is not enough for food, grow some behind your house. Even in kombonies food grows. If you are straving because the manee is not enough go on one of the many social welfare programmes throu out zambia.
419 is slang for corruption in Nigeria
Mubarak flees Gbagbo and Mugabe???????
kc #3 – all you MMD vuvuzelas who want to paint Zambia so good, why do you hail from foreign countries. We see one or two people with positive words posting from Zambia while the rest of you are hauling from the diaspora. If Zambia is so good, you can grow food to sustain you through out the year in your back yard, what are you running from? Are you paid to stay out or to be stu-pid?
Ba Austin Liato – Ulufumo ubukulo then utumaboko ubwipi- just saying!
Ba Liato ulufumo lwabo bushe kwina nangu kutumpa? Kapoli mulila kulepuka!!!!
Egyptians have done well to remove the old man from power. These old people have taken youths for granted in Africa. They say we cannot be leaders because we do not have experience, but we have the experience of working for them. Heads off youths of Egypt.
Our Zambian Army must pledge allegiance to the Zambian People and not to the Government of the day, let them take an example from the Egyptian Army, very dignified indeed.
Coming to the minimum wage, it’s an insult of unimaginable proportion. Liato spends at least K2.5m per meal of sea foods at Arcades, whenever he goes to eat from there, and that is more than what a Nurse, Clinical Officer, Teachers, etc, take home, before paying for rentals, utility bills, etc. Our Government is an embarrassment, your time is coming, as it has come for Mubarak.
This is what happens when Govts outlive their usefulness, they simply stop listening to the needs of the people, it’s a shame. The tears of the many suffering Zambians are being heard by the Lord, our God.
Iwe Liato…inchinto buhule….? dont take us for granted? your cell phone allowance alone is much more that what you are advocating for as the minimum wage. Viva Egypt power to the people. see what people are able to attain if the put the faith in each other….ordinary citizens, not these greedy fortune seekers, we call leaders in Zambia?
#4…………….. 419ners = scammers! thieves, crooks, bapompwe
they steal from you, while you’re watching
saddest part is when the thief turns himself into the ‘Master’ and you become his ‘Mugu’
This is what you get when you have a dull peasant farmer cum president leading the Country. This is the most s’tupid statement I have ever heard today. If Liato thinks K419k is alot of money, then I doubt his thinking capacity, and whether he is very normal in his heard.
I know MMD fellows are dogs but didn’t think they were to such as extent. Let this peasant farmer follow after Mubarak, and I hope he has a small decent shack at his farm in Chipata because he’s goe sooner than later.
Mubarak is gone watch out imwe ba kapoli mwatucusha muno. Tunisia formula is the way.
Liato you have no manners and principles!!! When you were a union leader you disagreed with politicians on this issue.
Liato, how do you think a Zambian family man can survive on a 419 thousand kwacha minimum wage pay?
You are using our tax payers money on all including your children’s school fees who you have failed to send to a government school because you have failed to improve our school standards in Zambia.
Thats pocket money for my daughter at nursary school
On “Government says the 419 thousand kwacha minimum wage was arrived at after thorough consultations with various stakeholders including employers and employees.[..] Labour Minister Austin Liato says it is sad that people especially from the opposition have continued to criticize the increment saying it is too small to meet the daily needs of an ordinary Zambian citizen” it is very sad that a GRZ Administration MP and Minister can condemn the Opposition, UPND Team, for being concerned over the Zambian workers in Kamwala area who are still getting about zk250,000 per month as their Indian and Chinese employers are not adhering to GRZ set rules when 18 Livingstone is indicating his/er daughter gets the 2011 minimum wage as her pocket money.
Be blest all.
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Matt 6:33
Liato!!!! only God know who you work for,you dont work for the people of Zambia,it is Rupiah and his so called investors who do not even pay tax,look at the mines.We indeed need flesh brains to run this country,We are tired of these selfish leaders.
Possibly there is just about any webpage which could provide us some several information and facts like the fact that was claimed in this case? Thanks for your Approach…