SNAGAP President Dumile Dlamini (L)and SNAT President Mbongwa Dlamini (R) signing the agreement with the Eswatini Government Written by Fundizwi Sikhondze On the early evening of Wednesday 15th October 2025 the Eswatini Government and the Public Services Unions (PSUs) reached an agreement on the implementation of the salary review and jobs grading process. The parties then signed a collective agreement that guided the modalities of the implementation of the recommendations that had been pronounced out by Emergency Human Consultancy in their report delivered and accepted by the parties. According to the collective agreement the implemented salary review was the Scenario Three (3) of the five (5) implementation scenarios proposed in the salary review and job grading report. Scenario three was described as the one scenario that aimed for the middle round and was characterised to be "making moderate yet impactful adjustment to the current salary structure". The collective agr...
PSU leaders at the JNF (picture credit: The SNAT Platform) After holding marathon meetings from Thursday 9 th to Friday 10 th October 2025 the Joint Negotiations Forum (JNF) parties, namely the Eswatini Government Negotiations Team (GNT)and the Public Service Unions (PSUs) took a break of a few days to allow the two parties to refresh their mandates with their principals. It is expected that the government negotiations team will consult with the cabinet of ministers on Tuesday 14 th October 2025. In the same vein it is expected that the PSUs will conduct a report back and renewal of mandate process through a Joint General Council of all the PSUs on the same day, Tuesday 14th October 2025. The week that ended on 10th October 2025 was an eventful week for the public service collective bargaining. It swing into high gear from Monday 6th October with a well attended joint public service mass meeting at the SNAT Center in Manzini. In the joint public service mass meeting the salary ...