The Zambian government on Thursday attributed the delays in January salaries for public workers to errors detected in the payroll.
Public workers in Zambia, who normally start receiving their salaries from 18th of each month, have not been paid their January salaries.
But the Ministry of Finance said preliminary findings have established a technical dysfunction in processing the January salaries for public workers as the cause of the delay following the implementation of this year’s terms and conditions of service.
“This triggered overpayments among some judiciary workers and underpayments related to combat allowances for some officers under the police service,” the ministry said in a statement.
A team comprising officials from the Office of thee Accountant-General, the Payroll Management and Establishment Control Office at Cabinet Office has since been constituted to rectify the errors, it added.
According to the statement, the team will trace all the “fault lines’ in the payroll and immediately implement corrective measures.
The finance ministry has since urged accounting and payroll management staff in various ministries and government departments to also conduct verification checks on the payrolls of their respective departments. Enditem
