MEC staff salaries delay further
Temporary staff engaged by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for the May 20 Tripartite Elections will have to continue waiting for their June salaries as government is yet to release funding.
The electoral body, in a statement issued yesterday, said it has meanwhile only managed to pay the temporary staff their dues for July 2014 up to their last day of engagement which was July 11 2014.
The affected staff include district elections coordinators, constituency returning officers, drivers, ICT data entry clerks, stringers, constituency civic education and voter education assistants and warehouse clerks.
“The commission urges all the staff to take note of this scenario and appeal for their patience as the Treasury and the accountant general are processing the funding,” says MEC in the statement signed by chief elections officer Willie Kalonga.
However, the body says the delay does not affect those who worked on the polling day because their honorarium would be paid from the donor basket funding managed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Three weeks ago, scores of ICT data entry clerks convened at MEC offices in Blantyre, demanding their June salaries and unpaid allowances.
The disgruntled ex-workers, who said they had worked for 10 months, claimed the commission owed them more than K150 000 each in unpaid allowances.
