Nehawu ends strike after agreement with financial aid scheme Nsfas
A four-day-long strike by members of the National Education‚ Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) was called off on Monday, following an agreement with the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas).The union’s secretariat said in a statement that "the package which workers accepted as the basis of suspending the strike contains an agreement to address salary anomalies for entry level for administrators to be moved from R175‚156 per annum to R209‚421 per annum; entry level for senior finance administrators to be moved from R209‚156 per annum to R289‚336 per annum; entry level for board committee specialists to be moved from R289‚336 per annum to R359‚313 per annum." The agreement also includes the permanent absorption of 75 employees whose contracts were coming to an end at the end of April.A once-off gratuity ranging from R4‚500 to R8‚500 will also apply for all employees who are part of the bargaining unit‚ "while both parties committed themselves to making performance man...
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