Three Cosatu-affiliated public sector unions say the government will have to pay the increases it refused to pay to workers this year, even if it has to be done in stages.
The government has refused to pay an increase provided for in a multiterm wage agreement signed in 2018 after massive cuts to the wage bill were pencilled into the budget in February in a bid to curb the ballooning budget deficit. ..
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