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Precious Manomano
Herald Reporter
THE Government has embarked on comprehensive job grading in the health sector to foster equity and fairness.
This initiative comes at a time when the Government is coming up with various strategies to improve the health sector, such as building more hospitals and recruiting more workers.
Stakeholders in the health sector are holding a two-week symposium in Gweru, where participants will be equipped with essential job grading processes in the health sector.
Speaking in an interview on the sidelines of the symposium, which began on Monday, Health Services Commission secretary Dr Christopher Pasi said the process will improve productivity among civil servants.
“We are now at an advanced stage of our job grading. We want to see how we can equitably place our employees in different categories,” he said.
The commission’s Conditions of Service Industrial Relations general manager, Dr Michael Sande said stakeholders, employees, and their leadership have said the current grading structure does not incorporate all the professions.
“This is partly due to the emergence of new disciplines over the years, such as imaging. These disciplines that were not adequately addressed in the previous grading structure developed in 2003,” he said.
“We have had significant developments in various fields, and our grading structure must reflect these changes. We expect the job grading system to address these gaps.”
A stakeholder, Ms Flavia Muyambo said job evaluation is the cornerstone of every organisation’s development.
