Collective Bargaining Agreement Harare Municipal Undertaking General Conditions of Service

This registers the January 2023 salary agreement between the Harare Municipality and the four unions representing its workers — MWUZ, ZUCWU (Harare Branch), WAWUZ and ZAMWU — under section 79 of the Labour Act.

The basic salary for the lowest paid grade rises 35%, from ZWL74 760,09 to ZWL100 926,12. The COVID-19 allowance goes from US$50 to US$75, paid into nostro accounts. Both changes take effect from 1 January 2023, and the agreement required all arrears to be paid by 14 February 2023.

Allowances: housing stays at 25% of basic salary. Transport is US$95 at the prevailing bank rate. For January 2023, the water allowance is US$15 and the rates allowance US$20, both at the prevailing bank rate. From 1 February 2023 the rates and water allowances — US$35 together — move from ZWL payment into USD nostro accounts, which for employees is the substantive change since it removes exchange rate erosion on that portion.

On employment council levies, the ZWL salary component attracts levies in ZWL and the USD component in USD. The employer agreed to pay both the employee and employer share of arrears for October to December 2022, but from 1 January 2023 each party meets its own levy contribution.

On governance, the Executive Committee sits as a Productivity Monitoring Committee together with the Human Capital Development and Finance Directors, meeting between the 10th and 14th of each month to review productivity and income results. The parties at the Employment Council meet monthly for reviews. All salaries and allowances, in both currencies, are payable on or before the 28th of each month.

The agreement was signed on 3 February 2023 but only gazetted on 23 February 2024, a year later — so for most of its life it operated as an internal agreement before being published.