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No salary increment for civil servants
KABO MOKGOABONE
Staff Writer
2/8/2005 6:56:55 PM (GMT +2)
Finance and Development Planning Minister Baledzi Gaolathe dashed civil servants’ hopes when he failed to award them a salary increase. The Minister said that the tight budgetary situation and the fact that government has just started the implementation of the new unitary pay structure means that there will be no public service salary adjustment for the current financial year.
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The government is still reeling from last year’s 15 percent salary increase for civil servants, which punched a P600 million hole in its coffers. The increment came after a period of strikes and pressure by civil servants and teachers for better working conditions. The teachers led the onslaught with strikes. Government then realised that labour movements in the country were serious about their resolve to get better pay. Though the government hiked the salaries, others said that it would be highly inflationary.
To fund the new pay system, government was forced to halt some of development projects.
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