Zimbabwe: Civil Service Is Collapsing – Senate Calls for Immediate Increase in Workers’ Salaries

The Senate is piling pressure on the government to urgently review civil servants’ salaries and align them with regional standards, arguing that this is critical to rescuing the collapsing public sector.

For years, unions representing government workers have been calling for salaries to be restored to 2018 levels, when the lowest-paid employees earned the equivalent of about US$400. Economic shocks and inconsistent policies have eroded earnings, prompting a mass exodus of skilled professionals…