Unions agree to a wage-freeze in the steel and manufacturing sector
18 August 2020 - 19:47
Employers in the metals and engineering sector got a reprieve from unions’ demands for higher wages after entering into an agreement to freeze wages until 2021 due to Covid-19.
The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), the largest union in the sector, said the wage-freeze agreement was brought on by the lockdown that came into effect in March as the government moved to limit the spread of the coronavirus in the country...
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