Duties of the city council

Bulawayo city council (BCC)is in charge of activities that happen in the city.It is there to make sure everyone gets fair treatment.Its duty is to maintain infrastructure in the city and to make sure everyone gets services such as water supply,electricity,garbage collection,land allocation on time.It is the overseer of the city so that there can be peace and stability.Every area must have basic facilities such as clinics,health centers,schools,churches,shopping centers and entertainment center.All these things are responsibilities of the council and also to create employment for the citizen not take it away.

They must make sure these facilities have enough staff to operate them so that no one can be disadvantaged.That is the staff, by being overworked or the public by slow delivery of services.It becomes an issue of concern when we hear that the council wants to retrench workers who are few already so as to reduce the amount going to paying them.

 BCC has set itself on a collision course with its workers with reports that the local authority is revisiting a previous failed resolution to retrench its staffers with the local authority recently flighting a tender to carry out a staff rationalization and job evaluation exercise. Impeccable council sources revealed that the local authority has adopted the move in a bid to deal with budget constraints. The source further revealed that the local authority was nursing a shortage in critical areas, like health services hence they needed to layoff staffers in other departments so as to employ more nurses

 BCC has in the past clashed with its workers as it has constantly failed to pay their salaries on time and at one time had considered retrenching just over 1 000 of its workforce.

However deputy mayor Clr Gift Banda downplayed the issue  of retrenchment by saying this was just a routine exercise

"This has nothing to do with retrenchment, we are satisfied with the current establishment although according to our current figures we have just over 3 000 when we actually need 5 000," he said.

"The decision on retrenchment will only be made after the completion of the evaluation, rationalization and restructuring.Before the start and finalization of the exercises we cannot decide whether or not we are retrenching as an organization.

"Rationalization is meant to identify staffing levels in each section and ensure that the levels are commensurate with the level of activity in the city, the staff complement should be supportive of service delivery, job evaluation will be to identify over graded and under graded positions and ensure all positions in council are appropriately graded and there is full utilization of labor while restructuring as an exercise ensures that the structure is cost effective and promotes effectiveness and efficiency," said Mrs Mpofu.

THE Bulawayo City Council has set itself on a collision course with its workers with reports that the local authority is revisiting a previous failed resolution to retrench its staffers with the local authority recently flighting a tender to carry out a staff rationalisation and job evaluation exercise. Impeccable council sources revealed that the local authority has adopted the move in a bid to deal with budget constraints.

This comes just three months after the Harare City Council booted out its spokesperson, Mr Leslie Gwindi and three other senior managers whose positions were made redundant by the city's restructuring programme. - See more at: http://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-local-byo-63578.html#sthash.ksKJKhAl.dpuf

THE Bulawayo City Council has set itself on a collision course with its workers with reports that the local authority is revisiting a previous failed resolution to retrench its staffers with the local authority recently flighting a tender to carry out a staff rationalisation and job evaluation exercise. Impeccable council sources revealed that the local authority has adopted the move in a bid to deal with budget constraints.

This comes just three months after the Harare City Council booted out its spokesperson, Mr Leslie Gwindi and three other senior managers whose positions were made redundant by the city's restructuring programme. - See more at: http://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-local-byo-63578.html#sthash.ksKJKhAl.dpuf

THE Bulawayo City Council has set itself on a collision course with its workers with reports that the local authority is revisiting a previous failed resolution to retrench its staffers with the local authority recently flighting a tender to carry out a staff rationalisation and job evaluation exercise. Impeccable council sources revealed that the local authority has adopted the move in a bid to deal with budget constraints.

This comes just three months after the Harare City Council booted out its spokesperson, Mr Leslie Gwindi and three other senior managers whose positions were made redundant by the city's restructuring programme. - See more at: http://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-local-byo-63578.html#sthash.ksKJKhAl.dpuf