In a bid to tackle widespread anger over the state of the economy, Zimbabwe’s government has offered to raise public sector wages by seventy-six percent up from an initial offer of a ten percent increase that the unions had rejected.
An umbrella group for public sector unions disclosed this on Friday.
The unions group, known as the APEX Council, said that the new offer is still below what workers are demanding and that it would mean the lowest paid civil servants earned one thousand and twenty-three Zimbabwe dollars per month compared with their demand of four thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
The council said that it would consult its members on the new offer and that talks with the government would resume on Tuesday.
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