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CIVIL servants unions will this week meet the Civil Service Commission (CSC) to review the legal framework governing their operations to ensure that they are in line with the new constitution.In an interview on Friday, the president of the Apex Council, an umbrella body of all the civil servants unions, Mr David Dzatsunga, said the civil servants unions needed to realign their operations with the new constitution, which President Mugabe signed into law in May this year.
“We are preparing to meet the newly constituted Civil Service Commission so that we look at the legislative framework governing our operations,” said Mr Dzatsunga who also leads the College Lecturers Association of Zimbabwe (Colaz).
“We will be meeting our technocrats on Monday (today) and then the full council will meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday the council will meet the CSC.”
Mr Dzatsunga said in the past civil servants were not allowed to go on strike or do collective bargaining as they were only permitted to consult the Government first about their grievances.
He said the signing of the new constitution meant that the civil servants’ body needed to be aligned with the new supreme law.
“We have not met since the adoption of the new constitution and it is important that we reconstitute ourselves first and review our internal instruments.
“The Apex Council is a creature of statute and as it is we cannot enter into labour negotiations with the Government because we do not know how we should be operating after the signing of the constitution.”
He said the Apex Council had received invitations from CSC for this week’s deliberations on the legal framework.
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