Unions and Tito Mboweni at odds over ‘talks’
Entire budget depends on three-year wage freeze for public servants
29 October 2020 - 19:50
Finance minister Tito Mboweni insisted on Thursday that the government has held “a multipronged conversation” with trade unions to lay the groundwork for a three-year wage freeze on which the entire budget rests.
Mboweni was briefing MPs at parliament in a joint committee meeting of finance and appropriations from the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces...
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