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Public Service Salaries Review Commission sworn in |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
Lusaka------- Chief Justice Ernest Sakala has prodded the newly appointed commissioners of the Salaries Review Commission to harmonise discrepancies in salaries, benefits and conditions of service for Civil Servants in the country.
Justice Sakala said the commissioners must ensure that Civil Service workers who were the country’s backbone were appreciated by awarding them with better salaries and condition of services.
Justice Sakala said this at the Supreme Court today when he swore in 15 commissioners to be sitting on the Salaries Review Commission.
He said there had been great amount of discrepancies in salaries and other conditions within the Public Service especially that while some were getting low salaries other in the same service others were getting much better salaries.
He said this had raised questions among staffs in the civil service as they wondered why this was so.
“There has been great amount of discrepancies in salaries, conditions and benefits within the public service. At times when asked by our staffs, why their salaries are so low while others in the same public where getting much better salaries we fail to answer other than agree with them. It is not uncommon that certain civil servants are receiving salaries in US dollars while other in other institutions with same qualifications are receiving salaries in Kwacha” he said
He said awarding civil servants with good salaries and conditions of services would help fight corruption as they would be deterred from temptations of graft and misappropriation of public funds.
Justice Sakala said the civil servants would be very expectant of what the Commission would ultimately recommend to them.
Among the notable persons on the Commission are; Copperbelt University (CBU) Chancellor Professor Muyunda Mwanalushi, Former Chief Justice Matthew Ngulube, Public Service Management Division (PSMD)’s George Kawatu, and Zambia Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) Secretary General Roy Mwaba.
Others are Danny Longwe, Nana Mudenda, Edgar Imasiku, Danny Musenge, Yuyi Libakeni, Japheth Msimuko, Mabvuto Sakala, Meamui Kongwa, Redson Lusale, Lloyd Sichilongo, and Professor Mutale Chanda from the University of Zambia (UNZA).
The last salary review commission was done in 1993.
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