The Cleaners Association of Zambia has observed the need for government to renegotiate with employers over the revised minimum wage.

Speaking in an interview with Money FM News, Association Secretary General Lawrence Makumbi cleaners that has about eighteen thousand workers, risks laying off workers due to the revision of minimum wages.

Mr. Makumbi says this is because the profits and income for the cleaners in Zambia has remained the same and therefore there is no money to pay the workers.

“Our income is the same, and we wonder where we will get the extra money to pay our workers. We are not against the revised minimum wage as it aims at addressing the plight of our workers, but government should also think of us who are employing these people we are in business,” he laments.

Mr. Makumbi feels that the government should have started implemented this wage in January, 2019 to allow employers plan for these adjustments.

He says the government should call all stakeholders to sit down and agree on how this issue will be resolved without job losses as well as for those in businesses not to incur further costs.