Employees in the Tourism industry are demanding a 320% salary increase iin the ongoing salary negotiations in Harare.

Clement Mukwasi‚ the president of the Employers Association for Tourism and Safari Operators said the negotiations are moving towards a deadlock.

“Salary negotiations for the tourism industry underway in Harare . What do the employees representatives want ? A 320% increase,” Mukwasi said. “The employers have offered an inflation based adjustment as a cost of living allowance. These two are leading towards a deadlock.”

Analysts have argued that the tourism companies should pay the employees in forex since they charge most of their services in forex. 

In March  the tourism companies awarded their employees a 55% cost of living adjustment across the board, after the National Employment Council (Nec) for the tourism sector signed a collective bargaining agreement.

“Employees and Nec settled for 55% for all sectors and this will run from March 1 to June 30. Within that period, we will be monitoring performance of the economy and see whether we would adjust the allowance upwards or downwards, “Mkwasi told the media then.

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