DRC: Jean-Pierre Lihau launches government–trade union committee talks on a pay policy for “fair remuneration”

Jean-Pierre Lihau Ebua opened a two-day meeting of the joint government–trade union committee in Kinshasa on November 6. Experts will review recommendations from the IMF and World Bank, along with proposed amendments, as they work toward adopting a pay policy for the whole of the DRC. Lihau said the draft, presented to the Council of Ministers that day, should go beyond a basic salary scale and address disparities between administrations, Kinshasa and the provinces, and different groups of state employees. Bienvenu Mulenda of INAP welcomed the government’s commitment to correcting pay gaps among public servants.