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The Zimbabwean government through cabinet which set yesterday, has agreed that all sectors should set the minimum wage at US$150 a month, payable in local currency at the prevailing official rate or in foreign currency.
In her Post cabinet briefing, Minister of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services Senator Monica Mutsvangwa said Cabinet agreed when it approved the report from Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) meeting.
Senator Mutsvangwa said along with the minimum wage guide the TNF wanted Government to consider tax cuts on wages and salaries to increase disposable incomes, and fair distribution of incomes should become a policy and planning imperative.
The USD 150 minimum wage was recommended as a guide. The Norm usually sees the minimum wage paid to a recently hired unskilled worker and every addition to skill and every addition to experience normally pushes staff up a ladder in most national employment councils and their equivalent.
The Tripartite Negotiating Forum is a platform where employers, Government and trade unions come together to discuss issues pertaining to salaries, wages and other working conditions in the national interest.
The Second Republic now pays significantly better than the guide, and the TNF is now looking for private sector buy-in as a way of improving people’s lives as espoused by President Mnangagwa’s vision of leaving no one behind.
The Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister said after yesterday’s Cabinet meeting that Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Paul Mavima updated Cabinet on the outcome of the TNF meeting and the recommendations made.
Apart from setting a guide for the lowest run minimum wage the TNF wanted to see ratified the 2019 convention on violence and harassment at the workplace, to combat these ills in the work world, and the promotional framework for occupational safety and health convention, to upgrade these aspects.
Minister Mutsvangwa also said Cabinet noted the updates on the labour law reform, operationalisation of the TNF and the report of the TNF Technical Committee.
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