The two worlds of civil service and private sector

While civil servants can afford a huge smile for the first time in more than five years because of the recent six percent salary increment, the same cannot be said of their counterparts in the private sector. Staff Writer, BAME PIET compares the remuneration fates of the two cadres and finds a wide disconnect

Unlike the civil service, life for workers in the private sector is not easy. It is a dog eat dog affair and survival of the fittest in the private sector where unionisation is a cumbersome process often accompanied by suspicions with possible dismissal by employer looming large.

Terrifying, are the conditions under which some of the workers find themselves in the private sector while in the civil service an officer can afford to turn back a client with the flimsiest of excuses like the stamp has run out of ink or copies of forms have been exhausted. Unlike the civil service, there is no bargaining council in the private sector.

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