Gweru to pay workers’ expenses to clear salary arrears

GWERU City Council employees have signed a deal where the local authority would pay their medical, funeral expenses as well as children’s school fees in lieu of their three months’ outstanding salaries.

The cash-strapped local authority has been struggling to clear workers’ salary arrears, owing to low revenue inflows.

“The works council meeting held on December 29, 2017 resolved that the salary arrears be ring-fenced for three months,” chamber secretary, Vakai Chikwekwe said in a memo dated January 12.

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