{"id":26900,"date":"2020-08-25T20:57:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T18:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=26900"},"modified":"2020-08-25T20:57:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T18:57:25","slug":"striking-nurses-receive-double-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/striking-nurses-receive-double-salary","title":{"rendered":"Striking Nurses Receive \u2018Double Salary\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Striking nurses have finally been paid their July [and August] salaries which had been withheld by the Health Services Board (HSB).<\/p>\n<p>HSB has a no-work, no-pay principle and in July, it struck off its payroll all nurses who were no longer reporting for duty demanding USD salaries and adequate personal protective equipment (PPE).<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) president Enock Dongo confirmed to the\u00a0<em>Daily News<\/em>\u00a0on Sunday that the nurses were paid double their normal salaries this month to compensate for July. He said:<\/p>\n<div class=\"xzlHA405\">\n<blockquote><p>The majority of nurses who did not receive salaries in July got them this month. It is a welcome development, but we still feel it was wrong in the first place to remove striking nurses from the payroll.<\/p>\n<p>We want our concerns to be addressed and there is no need to be vindictive. We hope someone somewhere will see sense and do what is right because our concerns are legitimate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dongo reiterated the union\u2019s stance that the nurses would not return to work until the government meets their demands.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the civil servants\u2019 Apex Council dismissed as false Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube\u2019s assertion that negotiations under the National Joint Negotiation Council (NJNC) are going on.<\/p>\n<p>A fortnight ago, Ncube said negotiations for an annual cost of living adjustment between the government and its employees under the NJNC had started.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striking nurses have finally been paid their July [and August] salaries which had been withheld by the Health Services Board (HSB). HSB has a no-work, no-pay principle and in July, it struck off its payroll all nurses who were no longer reporting for duty demanding USD salaries and adequate personal protective equipment (PPE). Zimbabwe Nurses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8],"tags":[807,1443],"class_list":{"0":"post-26900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"category-head-lines","10":"tag-mthuli-ncube","11":"tag-zina"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Striking Nurses Receive \u2018Double Salary\u2019 - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/striking-nurses-receive-double-salary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Striking Nurses Receive \u2018Double Salary\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Striking nurses have finally been paid their July [and August] salaries which had been withheld by the Health Services Board (HSB). 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