The government has agreed to increase civil servants’ salaries with the lowest paid now earning $253 a month up from $128. Tendai Chikowore, the chairwoman of Apex Council – an umbrella body representing government employees – said the council had agreed to the government offer, which brought the lowest paid civil servants “to 50 per cent of obtaining the poverty datum line of $502 dollars”. A review would take place in January 2012.
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