Government’s decision to effect an upward adjustment on minimum wages for domestic workers, shopkeepers and general workers has dismayed some business owners in Livingstone.
The employers feel the research undertaken by government leading a subsequent directive for new wages was not consultative.
Steven Chata, who owns a tyre mending business in Maramba Market says, the directive may force him to let go of his three assistances because he cannot sustain them at the current business rate.
In accordance with Statutory Instrument Number 69 of Domestic Workers Order of 2018, the gross pay for domestic workers will move from K993.60 to K1, 300 while drivers, sales assistants and packers will earn a gross pay of K2, 722.57 from K1, 994.40.
By Memory Nyambe