Public servants still in limbo over wage increase saga
Pubic-sector unions may turn to the courts if the government doesn’t honour a wage agreement signed in 2018
Public servants, including healthcare workers on the front-line of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, are still in limbo over whether they will receive their salary increases in line with a standing wage agreement when their pay cheques come in on Wednesday.
The government and organised labour has been at loggerheads over the implementation of the final year of a three-year wage agreement for public servants signed in 2018. This was after finance minister Tito Mboweni took a scalpel to the public wage bill in the 2020/2021 budget and penciled in huge cuts, which organised labour in the public sector took as a declaration of war. ..
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