By Paul Nyathi|Following the surprise allowances back pay to government nurses, doctors and nurses have also come trailblazing on government demanding processing of their own outstanding payments.

Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe Obert Masaraure declared in an interview on Tuesday that the teachers have been irked into action by the payments made to the nurses.

Masaraure said that the teachers have rejected the 15% salary increase offered to them by the government demanding that salaries be pegged on the poverty datum line.

The teachers are also demanding for an immediate payment of their outstanding cash in lieu of leave.

“We are disturbed that the government decides to easily listen to nurses but turn a blind eye to the teachers,” he said.

Masaraure warned that the teachers will definitely be going on a mass job action anytime to cement their grievances to government.

The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association spokesperson Dr Mxolisi Ngwenya has also raised concerns that government has failed to stick terms agreed on at the end of their one month job education in April.

Speaking in an interview on Tuesday Ngwenya said that the government failed to settle the dues as agreed but have been able to settle the nurses due.

Dr Ngwenya said that government through the Health Services Board paid their salaries in April as agreed but failed to stick to the agreement in May.

Ngwenya warned that the doctors will do anything possible to push the Health Services Board to release their payments immediately.