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SESTUZ appeals to teachers to study 2010 Collective Agreement |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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Lusaka……..The Secondary School teachers’ Union of Zambia (SESTUZ) has called on its members to carefully study the 2010 Collective Agreement and Public Service Management Division Circular no. B 9 of 2010 dated 5th May on the review of salary and conditions of service.
SESTUZ said this would enable the teachers correctly interpret their payslips.
The call is in the wake of what some teachers perceived as irregular deductions on their July payslips.
SESTUZ General Secretary Wamuyuwa Sitibekiso said in a statement to ZANIS in Lusaka today that what appeared on the July payslips as abnormal deductions of house rent by teachers occupying Government quarters was actually rent being recovered by the employer in arrears over a three months period albeit the recovered rentals had been spread over a four-month period.
Mr Sitibekiso noted that the new salaries and conditions of service became effective on 1st April, 2010 thus the payment of House rent by teachers occupying Government quarters which also was effective from the same date.
In the same vein, he explained that members were paying 2% of the 15% salary increment for the month of April as union subscription which he said should have been recovered in May when salary arrears were paid.
‘’Following the implementation of the 2010 GRZ/SESTUZ Collective Agreement in May this year, new salaries, including a one month arrear (for April) were paid. However, the new conditions of service such as Housing Allowance were only effected in June and paid only to eligible employees as per new Collective Agreement, and Government ceased to pay the old Housing Allowance rates to non-eligible members,’’ said the statement.
And Mr Sitibekiso appealed to its members who were eligible for rural/remote hardship allowance but were not receiving it, to be patient as every effort was being made to pay them.
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