Published: 2016 February 06 07:15:15 (4479 Views)

The government is not obliged to consult anyone when taking measures on civil servants' conditions of service and has discretion to withdraw vacation leave and reset it for another day. Any civil servant aggrieved by lawful directives should follow
the "grievance procedure" as provided for by the Public Service Commission regulations, the government said.

This emerged in a case in which the Zimbabwe Teachers' Association took the government to court challenging the deferment of vacation leave for all teachers.

In its response to the court papers filed by the union, the government, through the Public Service Commission, said the decision to scrap vacation leave for teachers was justified and it was guided by Section 58 of the PSC regulations which allowed for the heads of Ministry to suspend the operations of a working rule.

In any case, the PSC argued, there was no provision that made it mandatory for them to consult members before deferring the vacation leave.

The Commission said the teachers were not denied their leave, but had "simply" been recalled until a proper policy had been adopted.




- Herald

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