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 …
Read More »Museveni splits salary between Janet, NRM and COVID-19
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, …
Read More »MUBS former staff fail to refund UGX 820 million
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 …
Read More »Aviation Engineers demand better pay
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 …
Read More »Over 600 Mak staff miss October salary
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 …
Read More »“We are not happy”: CAOs demand 13.5m salary increment
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 …
Read More »STRIKE: Why workers pick weapon of last resort
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 …
Read More »VIDEO: Doctors threaten to strike, demand for 48 million
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 …
Read More »Guinea-Bissau blocks payments in ‘ghost salary’ crackdown
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau | AFP | Authorities in Guinea-Bissau have blocked the September salary payments of nearly a third of the country’s 13,000 civil servants whom they suspect are ghost workers. “After a check made by a team in my department, we found that 4,000 bogus workers, who do not fulfil the …
Read More »Lukwago goes to court demanding sh563 million from KCCA
Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has dragged the Minister for Kampala Beti Tirwomwe, the Executive Director Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) Jennifer Musisi, the Attorney General and KCCA to the High Court, seeking orders compelling the respondents to release sh563.4 million he says they owe him in accumulated emoluments and salary …
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