{"id":8502,"date":"2021-10-23T00:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T00:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension"},"modified":"2021-10-24T00:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T00:59:07","slug":"labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension","title":{"rendered":"Labour Unions Welcome Debt Swap Recovery Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>The labour movement in North-western province has expressed happiness over government\u2019s decision to suspend the debt swap deductions on its members. Professionals Teachers Union of Zambia (PROTUZ) provincial chairperson, Gilly Kakunta says his union is grateful to the government for rescinding its position to continue deductions the debt swap recovery from his union members.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kakunta said in an interview that the union is happy that the government has rescinded its decision to recover the debt swap. \u201cNow that government has rescinded its decision and promised to work with the unions throughout in as far as debt swap is concerned we are grateful, that is how the government is supposed to operate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kakunta said the decision also shows how the new dawn government is committed to improving the welfare of the teachers. Government and public service unions yesterday has issued a joint media statement announcing the suspension of debt swap recoveries from public service employees who benefited from the debt swap..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing concerns from public service employees on the recovery of monies advanced to them in July and August, 2021 as part of the debt swap implementation process, it has been agreed between government and the public service unions to suspend the recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently all monies deducted from the employees will be refunded before November, 2021 salaries are processed\u201d, reads the statement in part.<\/p>\n<p>The parties agreed to continue discussing the debt swap scheme as agreed in the collective agreement and therefore, urged all public sector employees to remain calm and their matter is receiving due attention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. The labour movement in North-western province has expressed happiness over government\u2019s decision to suspend the debt swap deductions on its members. Professionals Teachers Union of Zambia (PROTUZ) provincial chairperson, Gilly Kakunta says his union is grateful to the government for rescinding its position to continue deductions the debt swap recovery from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,16],"tags":[234,235,3663,976,233],"class_list":["post-8502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-new-dawn-government","tag-north-western-province-2","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Labour Unions Welcome Debt Swap Recovery Suspension - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The labour movement in North-western province has expressed happiness over government\u2019s decision to suspend the debt swa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Labour Unions Welcome Debt Swap Recovery Suspension\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The labour movement in North-western province has expressed happiness over government\u2019s decision to suspend the debt swa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-23T00:40:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-24T00:59:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/10\/img-6174afbf9a14b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Labour Unions Welcome Debt Swap Recovery Suspension\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-23T00:40:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-24T00:59:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension\"},\"wordCount\":278,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2021\/10\/img-6174afbf9a14b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"New Dawn government\",\"North-Western Province\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/labour-unions-welcome-debt-swap-recovery-suspension\",\"name\":\"Labour Unions Welcome Debt Swap Recovery Suspension - 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