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GOOD NEWS!! Nurses Win Payrise
Nurses and midwives have earned a graded salary increase that improved their take home pay by 21 per cent during the salary negotiations between Zambia Union of Nurses Organisation (ZUNO) and the government that ended on Tuesday March, 4 2013.
The salary increment will be based on the results of the Job Evaluation and Re-grading (JERG) exercise that government has embarked on and will be effective on 1st September, 2013.
The negotiations saw nurses and midwives being awarded a new exclusive duty facilitating allowance called Health Personnel Shift Differential, and an increase in the Commuted Night Duty allowance.
And speaking in a statement, ZUNO described the just ended negotiations for salaries and other conditions of service for nurses and midwives in the civil service as progressive.
ZUNO President Thom Yung’ana said that this year’s negotiations were meant to correct distortions that existed in the different medical salary scales and were a firm foundation for overhauling the pay system for the civil service.
Mr Yung’ana said that the civil servants’ pay structure was riddled with distortions among the salary scales that tended to favour certain sectors giving rise to the distortions.
“Currently, the pay structure is such that certain cadres were getting different salaries though doing the same job. And this structure does not recognise the qualifications of the incumbents nor the intensity of the jobs involved. And this year’s negotiations were meant to address such concerns,” he said.
He said that the union and the government were working together to bring about reforms in the way nurses and midwives were remunerated and that this process would take time to be fully implemented.
“This year we are implementing the JERG which will also involve the validation and re-evaluation of certain jobs in the medical scales. This will be done by the incumbents and this process shall go on up to August 2013,” Mr Yung’ana said.
During this period, the union and the government would also review and develop staff structures in the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health to accommodate health professionals who are degree holders in the clinical area in addition to administration and nursing education.
“Further, this period between March and August will also be used for other consultations and appeals from the job incumbents before the JERG results can be implemented on 1st September, 2013,” he said.
Mr Yung’ana called the nurses and midwives to continue being professional in all their conduct and assured them that the results of the 2013 would only be effective for four months before the union engages government for the 2014 improved salaries and other conditions of service.
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KASABULA
April 9, 2013 at 1:54 pm
What hard work? It is just hard bargaining period. These nurses are no longer nurses. They let the relative (s) of the patient to look after the patient they are supposed to nurse.
phint
April 9, 2013 at 2:03 pm
Mulebomba nokumba ba mambala not letting people giving birth in their vehicles sha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Snr Midwife
April 9, 2013 at 2:30 pm
you 2 chaps above, when last did u thank a nurse for any good works? never i guess. u are just quick at condemning others. try working in spot light thats wen you’ll know wat this mean. not nawikala ulepanga surf ati ndabombela abantu without complaints! kapala iwe
umulwele ine!
April 9, 2013 at 2:48 pm
You have heard just work now iwe chi snr midwife not busy kumwa tea and knitting…tamwakwata sugar kumayanda…styoopppeett!
ngulu
April 9, 2013 at 3:02 pm
walitumpa
umulwele ine!
April 9, 2013 at 3:12 pm
naiwe wine walitumpa sana anso!
ngulu
April 11, 2013 at 7:39 pm
KOLWE
Snr Midwife
April 9, 2013 at 3:23 pm
some of you guys are not fit to comment on this issue. try the next article about “color of mini-buses” coz that where you belong, Pa station and you can contribute effectively. insele pa station is normal as you eat imichopo ya mbwa… meanwhile ifwe ninshi we are drinking hot coffee with our patients. waumfwa shani?
swine
April 9, 2013 at 3:31 pm
nagu ine chankalipa…shamelessly ati drinking coffee with our patients!..KWISA?
Mulila abalwele fyakulya…enjoying your zigoro and busy gossiping meanwhile our mothers will have been in the queue for hours on end!…others even give birth in vehicles atase kwatamano!
phint
April 9, 2013 at 2:43 pm
@ Snr Midwife kanshi you were listening…iye sorry.Ok pela thank you.
Snr Midwife
April 9, 2013 at 3:26 pm
good boy or girl. these are facts
DIVA
April 9, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Iwe chi Senior Midwife, why boast about drinking coffee with patients. Most of you just beg patient’s food or selling vitumbuwa to their real nurses (relatives). You know very well that most of you work in private clinics at night and come back to your hospital full time job morning shift to come and knit and sell fritters at the expense of patients. So shut up and stop boasting.
Caring nurse
April 9, 2013 at 8:42 pm
Old nurses used to do that, young nurses are caring. If you find a nurse knitting or selling anything while on duty, report. It is not allowed and are taught at nursing schools.
mm
April 9, 2013 at 3:41 pm
NURSES LIKE CHARTING ON DUTY, MOST OF THEM ARE RUDE, 1percent of these nurses keep selling flitters to patients relatives, even patients themselves, ok, some are good, but some are just there for luck of what to do. Now that our heavily taxed salaries will be paid to you, you must work very hard idiots. not someone giving birth on the corridors, you are busy drinking tea or walking around the corridors, for people to see you, atase, some nurses are not even too attractive anyway.
Its ok...!
April 9, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Ati,’mulelila abalwele ifyakulya’….kikkikiki but zoona.
mali
April 9, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Nurses attitude towards work must change anyway, theyare too pompus for nothing, sometimes when we go to hospitals, they consider us as people who never went to school, kwati bena aba sambilila saana ukuchila ifye. so tighten your belts.
ngulu
April 11, 2013 at 7:42 pm
Finshi wasambilila iwe kolwe
NIKITA
April 9, 2013 at 5:16 pm
This salary raise requires that you also pull up your socks not abusing patients all day long.Bringing home problems to work with u!
mbasela
April 9, 2013 at 5:24 pm
what of us in uniform? Not white of course.
Dora Middle finger
April 9, 2013 at 9:35 pm
They will increase the size of your weapons.. sorry
swine
April 10, 2013 at 2:07 pm
yayaya but kwaliba amashilu muchalo…iyi ni Ten Zero!..you have made my Wednesday!ukese nafuti waumfwa?
In Uniform
April 9, 2013 at 10:41 pm
My dear,for us it will be work as you earn..Put on uniform and relax. I have been putting on uniform from grade 1 up to today and at school, it was tough labour with canes from teachers and prefects. At work am harshly treated but poorly paid..To hell with uniform
Cycle Mata
April 10, 2013 at 12:03 pm
uniform from pre-school till 55 years…hahahahahaha…lol.
Zebige
April 9, 2013 at 5:50 pm
Guys let us learn to appreciate the work these dedicated men and women in this noble profession do.Nurses especially in Zambia do a very commendable job despite working under every difficulty circumstances(poor salaries and few nurses to patient ratio).Thumbs up bane.
munyanja
April 9, 2013 at 6:32 pm
can somebody tell me why september??????????.
Uwakulile muli center
April 9, 2013 at 6:34 pm
I was critically ill some 12 years ago and I was treated by Nurses, outside the country and thats when I began appreciating what a great and noble profession these people are in. Its a great job these people do and they should be respected.
Dr. NO.
April 9, 2013 at 8:31 pm
appreciat wht these pipo do. unless u have never been ill!
Dora Middle finger
April 9, 2013 at 9:33 pm
U now have wat u wanted.. work professionally.
Uwakwamununga
April 9, 2013 at 10:40 pm
Dora Middle Finger,spare me. Wandepaula sana…ati: “they’ll increase the size of your weapons”! I hope taubaila! nalaeba abakashi bandi tubwele ku z kaili eco twafikila kuno twaba mulandu wamapesa.
Snr Midwife
April 10, 2013 at 8:44 am
thanks to all with encouragements and positive critism. within ourselves there are bad eggs of course. some pipo with or without good money they will never change.
mostly nurses are on the curative side… the general public shod be on the preventive side. there are too many unnecessary illnesses. DO YO PART TO AVOID THE CONGESTION AT OUR SMALL CLINICS.
swine
April 10, 2013 at 2:00 pm
This is good Snr Midwife learn to get criticism whether good or bad and try to pick out sense out of it. Not kuali defender fye.And totally agree with you that cleanlines should being from our homes!Now that the pay rise is 21% you guys need to put in 42%, times two!
chams
April 10, 2013 at 8:54 am
Ndelolesha fye
kano nganibo
April 10, 2013 at 10:07 am
uko, nurses do a good job learn to appreciate all they look for green pasture where they are valued enough
Minister
April 10, 2013 at 11:36 am
Now, you should be wearing properly. Do not expose ur……
LUVTED
April 10, 2013 at 12:24 pm
It iz there time.
Haward Mulenga
April 10, 2013 at 1:51 pm
People may doubt what you say,but they will believe what you do. So guys just work
Dorcas
April 10, 2013 at 2:07 pm
Awe bane kwena it is not fair Some nurses really leave much to be desired. You know they even have the guts to speak their very broken english pakukalipila abalwele nama bed siders who actually do the nurses work eg. bed making, giving and removing bed pans, bed bathing patients,administering medicines which nurses leave on top of dirty lockers, feeding patients, mopping vomitus, and the list is endless. Kwena ninshi why are they inreasing their salaries? Pantu nomba elyo balachla ukutumpila abantu abakaele. Anyway God will deal with the Zambian Nurses!!!!
kano nganibo
April 10, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Dorcas talk sense what has broken english got to do with nurses .English is not applicable here.ulifontini sana…
katolika
April 12, 2013 at 9:49 am
it clear that a nurse of today is just after getting a salary than really giving care, very few nurses do that,