Now Copperbelt PS ready to deal with striking civil servants

Copperbelt Province permanent secretary Villie Lombanya says he is ready to apply sanctions on civil servants who would continue being on an illegal strike because there is no dispute declared between the Government and the unions.

“Those who may wish to continue shunning work are now acting as individuals and it will be easy to remove their names from the payroll. Once one’s name is removed from the payroll it is very difficult to have them reinstated,” Lombanya said.

He said district commissioners and heads of Government departments would today start submitting to his office lists of names of workers not ready to report for work despite the binding agreement between the unions and the Government.