Nehawu threatens mass action in Limpopo due to unpaid bonuses from the health department
The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) says it is mobilising for mass action in Limpopo because the provincial health department has yet to pay staff their performance bonuses for the 2016-17 fiscal year. At issue is R160m in benefits that Nehawu says should have been paid by July last year. The union says health is the only department in Limpopo that has yet to pay staff bonuses for 2016-17. "That money was budgeted for. What did they do with it?" said Nehawu’s Limpopo secretary Jacob Adams. "We have had various meetings with management. Last week their final offer was R90m. We told them to go to Treasury [and ask for more]." There was no dispute about the amount of money collectively owed to staff, he said. Nehawu held a picket outside the offices of the Limpopo health department on Wednesday to draw attention to the plight of employees, said Adams. "If workers don’t get their bonuses they suffer." Limpopo’s MEC for Health Phophi Ramathuba referred Busines...
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