Government has today implored public servants to wait for a comprehensive budget review next financial year to address salary enhancement matters that have led to a series of industrial action across the board.
This comes in the wake of demands for pay rise and improvement of welfare, which prompted President Yoweri Museveni to hold a cabinet meeting, in which it was resolved to increase public servants’ perks.
And in a press briefing held at Uganda Media Centre, early today, the Minister for Public Service Wilson Mukasa Muruli said the public servants’ remuneration enhancement will be done in phases prioritizing doctors, primary school teachers, secondary school teachers, soldiers (from private to sergeant) police and prisons officers, all health workers, the judiciary and all scientists.
“I would like to appeal to other public servants to remain calm and patient. With this pay rise, efficiency should be expected because government is true to its commitment of better service delivery,” he said.
At the same function the Security Minister Henry Tumukunde reiterated that government is ready to cater for its employees.
‘’This process has been on since 2015 and I want to really appeal to all workers to really understand,” Lt. Gen. Tumukunde said.
Some of the civil service groups that have engaged in industrial action include judicial officers, prosecutors, teachers and medical workers.
