GOVERNMENT has a salary increment offer for civil servants to cushion them from the prevailing economic challenges set to be
tabled before a National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC) soon, acting Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister July Moyo, has said.

The NJNC is a statutory negotiating platform for Government and civil servants representatives.It fixes negotiated agreements on the salaries and conditions of service for civil servants.

Speaking after a consultative meeting between a high-powered Government team and public service staff associations in Harare yesterday, Minister Moyo said the
employer was fully aware of the erosion of buying power caused to its workers by rising inflation due to unjustified price increases for basic commodities and the unofficial
three-tier pricing system.

“The conclusion of this discussion is that they (workers) should now, whether immediately or tomorrow, go into negotiations where Government will make an offer in terms of ameliorating the plight of the civil service in the areas that they have demanded, that is in transport, salaries and other non-monetary
issues such as housing,” said Minister Moyo.He however did not reveal the figures.Chronicle