Eswatini Labour Insight

 RETENCHMENTS,WAGE FREEZES  vs REMOVAL OF HANGERS ON AND DEAD WOOD THE ELUSIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PAYROLL AUDIT   Picture: Times of Eswatini Long before the Mandvulo Dlamini headed government took office in 2018  the government had engaged a consultant to conduct a salary review, a job grading and an audit of the payroll and skills  for civil  servants. In the launch occasion of  the payroll and skills audit, in 2013, the Prime Minister Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini had, in his speech,  estimated that they needed to reduce the civil service by around 7000 civil servants in order to ensure that the civil service was the right size and cost to the fiscus. He also mentioned that the salary freeze and the hiring freeze had not produced the desired results of substantially reducing expenditure on wages by the government.     The first two parts of the process, namely the salary review and the job grading, were implemented a few years later. Noted then was the fact that, it took longer to con

  STATEMENT BY THE RT HON PRIME MINISTER   DR B.S.S.DLAMINI   AT THE LAUNCH OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE PAYROLL AND SKILLS AUDIT   AT THE MOUNTAIN INN HOTEL, MBABANE   FRIDAY 12 JULY 2013     Honourable Minister for Public Service Senior Government Officers Ladies and Gentlemen     Public servants are Government’s most valuable resource, and it is essential that such a resource is managed properly, ensuring that the desired standards of public service delivery are achieved in a well-controlled and cost-effective manner. One matter that has been of considerable concern to Government is that, whether in relation to our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or as a proportion of recurrent Government expenditure, the cost of the public sector payroll is too high. Indeed, it has been recognized as a significant impediment to Government achieving a sustainable fiscal stability. Understanding the dimensions of the problem is straightforward. How to remedy it is less so. Precipitate  surgery  in the form of

  In                                               ESWATINI LABOUR INSIGHT     WOMEN'S MONTH 2021 SPECIAL EDITION                           TRADE UNIONS AS A SITE FOR STRUGGLE FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN ESWATINI AND INTERNATIONALLY Today 08 march 2021 marks international women’s day a day in which the whole world celebrates the contributions of Women. The United Nations Women theme for the year 2021 states that, “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) ‘s theme is “A New Social Contract for a gender-equitable recovery and resilience”. Both themes reveal that the contributio