Nurses threaten to down tools

HEALTH workers have threatened to down tools if the government fails to resolve a simmering dispute over health-specific allowances and the recently completed job evaluation, accusing authorities of reneging on agreements reached in May.

The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) and the Health Apex Team say almost three months after the government agreed to review health-specific allowances through the Health Bipartite Negotiating Forum, workers are still waiting for a substantive response to proposals submitted to authorities. Government has publicly acknowledged that health workers’ remuneration concerns remain unresolved.

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