Civil servants to wait for pay rise

MBABANE – There has been no cost of living salary adjustments for civil servants as expected this month.

Civil servants, who are expecting nothing less to what the security forces got, were hopefully expecting the adjustments to be effective this month end.

They are looking at nothing less than 10.5 per cent, which is what the armed forced have been awarded in respect of cost of living that is influenced by the inflation rate. What this publication has gathered is that negotiations with the employer, in this case government, were still ongoing.

National Public Service and Allied Workers Union’s (NAPSAWU) Vincent Dlamini said they had seen that government had money and that they were pushing to have it settle for nothing less than the double digit percentage for inflation rate.

Dlamini has called upon civil servants to be patient since the employer, government, wanted a negotiations policy which they were currently working on.
“What seemed to have delayed the process is that government wanted us to present a negotiations policy which we hope we would have finished by May 6, 2009,” said Dlamini. “In about four weeks time we are looking at seeing progress in the negotiations,” he continued.

“We are still to return to the negotiation table and by May 6, 2009, we are hoping to have finished negotiations on the policy,” he continued.
The policy is important in determining recognition on bargaining issues, which have to do with admittance of people to the negotiation table with respectable membership.

“This disappointment by civil servants can be attributed to the recent adjustments in salaries for armed forces in respect of cost of living allowances and the hefty back pays,” he said.
He also explained that they were not part of the negotiation process for the cost of living adjustments for the armed forces, but nonetheless they had seen that government has money and once they return to the negotiation table after finishing the policy they would vigorously nego-tiate for a fair increment.

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