LABOUR and Social Security Minister Brenda Tambatamba says the minimum wage that the government sets is intended for vulnerable workers. Responding to a caller when she featured on ZNBC’s ‘Government Forum’ programme, Wednesday, who wanted to find out why certain graduates got paid less than K1,000, Tambatamba said the minimum wage was introduced so as to fill the gap for vulnerable workers who cannot unionise. “I think listening to what he has said in the last instance, he is talking about teachers, he is talking about nurses, he is talking about all these professions. I have talked about minimum wage as a last resort for those that are vulnerable workers who cannot unionise because mostly, and that is the duty...

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