Harare (New Ziana)-The government will start paying its workers according to their academic qualifications, experience and seniority, bringing back a long-discarded policy.

Dubbed the advancement policy, its scrapping off in 2012 resulted in the “bunching” of salaries across all grades.

Public Service Commission (PSC) Secretary Tsitsi Choruma announced the return of the advancement policy.

“Following engagements in the context of the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC), Government resolved to reactivate the advancement of all civil servants in terms of the applicable advancement procedures.

“Accordingly, the Public Service Commission embarked on and finalised the placement of all civil servants in their respective grades by the end of December 2022. All civil servants will, therefore, be paid the salaries that reflect their advancement and placement within their grades with effect from January 2023,” she said.

“In pursuit of the foregoing, all the heads of line ministries are implored to submit all relevant higher qualifications obtained by civil servants under their ministries and departments to the Public Service Commission to facilitate the completion of the advancement exercise by 31st March 2023.”

Choruma said the government was committed to improving the welfare of its workers.

“According to the Principal Procedures, advancement is the vertical movement of employees within their grades after a given number of years of service, the demonstration of satisfactory performance and/or acquisition of specified or relevant qualifications.”

Meanwhile, Choruma said treasury had released pay dates for all civil servants for this year.
New Ziana