CRDB BANK - STAFF PACT EXPECTED TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY

CRDB Bank Managing Director, Charles Kimei exchanges documents with TUICO Deputy Secretary General, Shikunzi John (left), after the signing ceremony yesterday.

Dar es Salaam. CRDB Bank has pledged to honour collective bargaining agreement aimed at improving working conditions.

It hopes that by doing so, productivity will be enhanced.

That was said here yesterday by CRDB Bank managing director Charles Kimei after the signing ceremony of the collective bargaining agreement between the bank and the Tanzania Union of Industrial and Commercial Workers (Tuico).

“This agreement between the CRDB management and Tuico is a clear indication that employees’ remunerations are given top priority,” he later briefed journalists.

He said with the three-year agreement, CRDB hoped that workers would feel motivated as they could approach the management on various matters. The management will find it easier to resolve issues at the bargaining level rather than taking up complaints of individual workers.

“With the agreement, employees will acknowledge the continued role played by CRDB in rewarding their contributions to make the bank the leading financial institution.”

Some of the issues agreed include the proper way of recruiting and confirming employees, fair settlement of grievances, best workers’ awards and sick and maternity leaves as well as long-service awards.

Tuico deputy secretary general Shikunzi John said: “Only where there is good labour relationship, there is productivity.”

He praised CRDB for improving employees’ working conditions to promote job security and reduce the cost of labour turnover to management.

“Collective bargaining agreement includes not only negotiations between the employers and unions but also the process of resolving labour-management conflicts,” he said.

With the agreement, he said, the workforce strength, morale and productivity would increase.

The Citizen