Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several teaching and non-teaching staff in different public education institutions are using school re-opening to remind the government about their unresolved salary demands and are threatening to stage strikes over these. Before the closure of schools, there were different groups of staff in public education …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 100 civil servants in Gulu have missed their July salary because of gaps resulting from its elevation to a city. The affected workers include teachers and health workers attached lower health centers from Alukolum, Laliya and Bungatira parishes that were annexed from Omoro and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An employee whose loan is guaranteed by the employer to be recovered from their salary but is wrongfully dismissed from their job is not liable to pay the loan, the court has ruled. The Court of Appeal upheld an earlier ruling by the Industrial …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | President Yoweri Museveni will donate close to half his monthly salary to the COVID-19 national task-force. Reacting to a caller urging public servants to contribute to raising funds for the Coronavirus task-force, Museveni said he would donate about sh1.4million of his salary, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Seven former staff of Makerere University Business School (MUBS) have failed to refund 820.2 million shillings given to them as salary while on study leave. The staff upon completion of their studies abroad flouted the staff development bonding agreement with the university. According to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The engineers who include civil and aeronautical engineers, telecommunications engineers, Mechanical, Electrical, Technicians, Artisans, say they are paid less, which has affected their efficiency while handling airport services. However they refused to disclose how much money each earns, neither did they disclose the rate at …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 600 staffs of Makerere University have missed their October Salary after a technical error, Charles Barugahare, the University Secretary has said. URN has learnt that all staff invoices for October 2018 were uploaded on the Integrated Financial Management System – IFMS on October …
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Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs) have demanded a monthly gross pay of Shs 13.5 million up from the net Shs 1.7 million they currently earn. The CAOs who are the accounting officers for the Ministry of Local Government at the district level say they handle large …
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STRIKE: Why Ugandan workers pick weapon of last reason? Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | Salary wars usually get ugly, especially if they involve a strike by medical workers. So when members of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA), a 6000-member body started their strike over pay on Monday 06, the country …
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VIDEO: Doctors threaten to strike, demand for 48 million Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | Medical workers have threatened to take industrial action if the government does not work towards finding solutions to their grievances. The medical workers who yesterday gathered at Mulago hospital for their annual general meeting, are demanding …
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