adminthose of magistrates are being sorted.
Prosecutors and law officers went on strike last Tuesday protesting the salary discrepancies.
They have given the Ministry of Justice a two-week ultimatum to solve their salary concerns.
In a letter addressed to the Acting Secretary for Justice and Legal Affairs Mr Maxwell Ranga, the Zimbabwe Law Officers Association said by October 31 payments should be reflecting in members’ bank accounts.
“Pursuant to the meeting held between your office and the Association on 12 October 2011, and following a wider consultation with its membership, the association has accepted your plea to temporarily give your office some reprieve to sort out outstanding issues pertaining to salary discrepancies between law officers and prosecutors and their counterparts the magistrates.
“The association appreciates that its members have a mandate to work and your good office has an obligation to pay a descent salary,” said Ziloa.
Ziloa said the ministry should continue engaging stakeholders as agreed in the meeting. Ziloa said failure by the ministry to meet their conditions would entitle their members to continue the industrial action.
The Public Service Commission has accused the prosecutors of being insincere about their salaries.
The State lawyers, the PSC said had underestimated their salaries in a bid to gain public sympathy.
They also falsely claimed that there was a huge discrepancy between their salaries and those of magistrates, with whom they trained. The prosecutors said that they earned between US$253 and US$400 per month but PSC chairman Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwah, said their total monthly package ranged between US$555 and US$727.
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