NRZ Workers Smile To The Bank
Published: 2016 May 09 06:15:02 (5109 Views)
National Railways of Zimbabwe workers are set to receive part of their outstanding salaries after the government released $3 million to carter for their dues and end the month long strike.
The workers have unpaid salaries dating back 15 months.
Responding to a question in Parliament last week, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Joram Gumbo said they had paid about $3 million to the workers and urged them to go back to work.
He said among the measures to generate revenue, his ministry requested the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development to allow those who were indebted to the NRZ to give the ministry Treasury Bills in order to assist in paying the workers.
He was responding to a question by Mkoba MP Amos Chibaya who had asked what the government was doing to ensure that the workers at NRZ are able to fend for themselves and earn a decent living.
Minister Gumbo said over the past 15 months, the employees were receiving part of their salaries.
He said the challenge was that most parastatals who were keeping the NRZ afloat have closed shop or stopped giving business to the parastatal.
Minister Gumbo told the august House that the parastatal was in the process of collecting scrap material which would then be sold through a tender process to assist the workers.
The NRZ last month dragged its workers to court for refusing to return to work. Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira also ordered them to return to work pending the determination of the matter.
The parastatal said the workers had failed to give the mandatory 14 days’ notice to their employer of their intention to engage in collective job action.
Last week, Labour Court judge Justice Evangelista Kabasa struck the matter off the roll ruling that there was a technical irregularity which the NRZ should attend to before she could hear the matter.
- Chronicle
The workers have unpaid salaries dating back 15 months.
Responding to a question in Parliament last week, the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Joram Gumbo said they had paid about $3 million to the workers and urged them to go back to work.
He said among the measures to generate revenue, his ministry requested the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development to allow those who were indebted to the NRZ to give the ministry Treasury Bills in order to assist in paying the workers.
He was responding to a question by Mkoba MP Amos Chibaya who had asked what the government was doing to ensure that the workers at NRZ are able to fend for themselves and earn a decent living.
Minister Gumbo said over the past 15 months, the employees were receiving part of their salaries.
He said the challenge was that most parastatals who were keeping the NRZ afloat have closed shop or stopped giving business to the parastatal.
Minister Gumbo told the august House that the parastatal was in the process of collecting scrap material which would then be sold through a tender process to assist the workers.
The NRZ last month dragged its workers to court for refusing to return to work. Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira also ordered them to return to work pending the determination of the matter.
The parastatal said the workers had failed to give the mandatory 14 days’ notice to their employer of their intention to engage in collective job action.
Last week, Labour Court judge Justice Evangelista Kabasa struck the matter off the roll ruling that there was a technical irregularity which the NRZ should attend to before she could hear the matter.
- Chronicle
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