Government has revealed plans to trim civil servant departments which are over staffed and freeze salary increments until 2019.
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa, in a letter of intent to IMF managing director Christine Lagarde, said this was part of implementing recommendations contained Government’s employment audit.
The April 14 letter, posted on the IMF website and co-singed by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mangudya, said Government was working on a strategy to lower its wage bill and that of grant-aided institutions to 50 percent of total expenditure by 2019.
The letter said additional audits were underway in the Police, Judicial Service Commission and Health Services Board.
Both Minister Chinamasa and Mangudya could not be reached for comment yesterday.
The letter said employment costs in some State-owned enterprises (SOEs) had already been reduced.
- Sunday Mail
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