Collective Bargaining Agreement Harare Municipal Undertaking General Conditions of Service

This registered agreement between Harare Municipality and its four staff unions awards a cushioning allowance to municipal employees. The amount is $30 900 for the lowest paid grade, grade 16, and it cascades up to grade 5.

The effective date is 1 March 2023. The agreement was signed on 28 March 2023 and gazetted in February 2024, nearly a year later.

That is the whole substance of the instrument. It does not set out the amounts for grades between 16 and 5, only that the allowance cascades, so the intermediate figures must come from the Employment Council's own schedule rather than from the gazette.

The currency is not named. The agreement writes "$30 900" without saying whether that is Zimbabwe dollars or US dollars; given the March 2023 date and the size of the figure it reads as Zimbabwe dollars, but the instrument does not say so, and anyone computing arrears should confirm rather than assume.

The employee side is represented by the Municipal Workers Union of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe Urban Councils Workers Union (Harare Branch), the Water and Allied Workers Union of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Allied Municipalities Workers Union.