MASERU – Civil servants’ salaries were this month slashed again without any prior notification from government.
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May 26, 2020
STAFF REPORTER
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Public servants’ salaries cut again
Newly appointed minister of public service Semano Sekatle
This move was confirmed by the principal secretary in the Ministry of Public Service, Tšeliso Lesenya who showed that although there is no official notice in respect of the cut, the reductions however, had to be made.
Lesenya nonetheless failed to say how long the deductions made would last.
He said although the matter is being handled by his ministry, they are only receiving the database of salaries from the Ministry of Finance, adding that theirs was only to implement salaries starting April.
Lesenya said the deductions are from the tax credit which was effective from October 2019 through the gazette which was issued.
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The tax credit he said was deducted retrospective April 1, 2019 yet the gazette is not retrospective.
“We received the payroll with all those changes and if the system indicates that public servants owe government then there is nothing we could do,” he noted.
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