Government plans to slash public servant salaries in 2020
Cuts of R160.2bn over next three years expected to help achieve fiscal consolidation
26 February 2020 - 17:07
The government has pinned its hopes for fiscal consolidation on a bid to slash public servant salaries in 2020, a plan that has not yet been negotiated with trade unions.
Trade union federation Cosatu, which met government in the Public Sector Bargaining Chamber on the eve of the budget on Tuesday, has already responded with fury to the plan, calling it a “declaration of war”...
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