ZUNO STATEMENT
Nurses and midwives have earned a graded
salary increase that improved their take home pay by 21 per cent during the salary
negotiations between Zambia Union of Nurses Organisation (ZUNO) and the government
that ended on Tuesday April, 2 2013.
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The salary increment will be based on the
results of the Job Evaluation and Re-grading (JERG) exercise that government
has embarked on and will be effective on 1st September, 2013.
The negotiations saw nurses and midwives being
awarded a new exclusive duty facilitating allowance called Health Personnel
Shift Differential, and an increase in the Commuted Night Duty allowance.
And speaking in a statement, ZUNO described
the just ended negotiations for salaries and other conditions of service for
nurses and midwives in the civil service as progressive.
ZUNO President Thom Yung'ana said that this
year’s negotiations were meant to correct distortions that existed in the
different medical salary scales and were a firm foundation for overhauling the
pay system for the civil service.
Mr Yung'ana said that the civil servants’ pay
structure was riddled with distortions among the salary scales that tended to favour
certain sectors giving rise to the distortions.
“Currently, the pay structure is such that
certain cadres were getting different salaries though doing the same job. And
this structure does not recognise the qualifications of the incumbents nor the
intensity of the jobs involved. And this year’s negotiations were meant to
address such concerns,” he said.
He said that the union and the government were
working together to bring about reforms in the way nurses and midwives were
remunerated and that this process would take time to be fully implemented.
“This year we are implementing the JERG which
will also involve the validation and re-evaluation of certain jobs in the
medical scales. This will be done by the incumbents and this process shall go
on up to August 2013,” Mr Yung'ana said.
During this period, the union and the
government would also review and develop staff structures in the Ministry of
Health and the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health to
accommodate health professionals who are degree holders in the clinical area in
addition to administration and nursing education.
“Further, this period between March and August
will also be used for other consultations and appeals from the job incumbents
before the JERG results can be implemented on 1st September, 2013,”
he said.
Mr Yung'ana called the nurses and midwives to continue
being professional in all their conduct and assured them that the results of
the 2013 would only be effective for four months before the union engages
government for the 2014 improved salaries and other conditions of service.PYM
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