{"id":237916,"date":"2026-07-01T18:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-building-societies-lowest-paid-workers-to-earn-u-s-660-after-new-wage-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:18:52","slug":"zimbabwe-building-societies-lowest-paid-workers-to-earn-u-s-660-after-new-wage-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-building-societies-lowest-paid-workers-to-earn-u-s-660-after-new-wage-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Building Societies&#8217; Lowest-Paid Workers to Earn U.S.$660 After New Wage Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">THE Commercial Workers Union of Zimbabwe (CWUZ) has secured a significant wage increase for employees in the building societies sector following the successful conclusion of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">HealthCommunity InformationThe agreement was reached between CWUZ, representing non-managerial employees, and the National Commercial Employers Association of Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Under the new salary structure, the lowest-paid employee in Grade 1(a) will earn US$660 per month, while workers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607010189.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Commercial Workers Union of Zimbabwe (CWUZ) has secured a significant wage increase for employees in the building societies sector following the successful conclusion of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). HealthCommunity InformationThe agreement was reached between CWUZ, representing non-managerial employees, and the National Commercial Employers Association of Zimbabwe. Under the new salary structure, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6797,7012,15722,54749,257,18272,254,54750,7667,6498,4686,421],"class_list":["post-237916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-building","tag-deal","tag-earn","tag-lowestpaid","tag-news","tag-societies","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-660","tag-wage","tag-workers","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}