Collective Bargaining Agreement Harare Municipal Undertaking General Conditions of Service

This registered collective bargaining agreement covers salaries and cushioning allowances for the Harare Municipal Undertaking. It is between Harare Municipality and four unions — MWUZ, ZUCWU (Harare Branch), WAWUZ and ZAMWU.

The basic salary for the lowest paid grade rises from ZWL$49 152,19 to ZWL$74 760,09, an increase of about 52%. Part of that comes from restructuring rather than new money: half the existing cushioning allowance is folded into the basic salary, leaving the other half as an RTGS cushioning allowance.

On top of that, an additional cushioning allowance of US$50 is awarded across the board — a flat amount for every employee, not a percentage. The employer is to put in place the logistics of paying it. All other hygienic allowances stay as they are.

The agreement states its own effective date as 1 October 2022. It was signed at Harare on 9 October 2022 but only gazetted on 23 February 2024, roughly sixteen months later, so it is a retrospective record of a settled position. It also flags unfinished business: an exercise to correct grade differentials and the salary scale, to be signed as an addendum, and a periodic review that was to start in the first week of November 2022.

Because only the lowest grade is quantified, the agreement does not show what the other grades are paid — that depends on the grade differential exercise the parties left to an addendum that is not part of this instrument.