BDLive reports that the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) has ruled that Parliament should pay researchers salary increases, which are four years overdue, retrospectively.  

The ruling on Monday means that Parliament will have to find up to R38m to pay 49 researchers back to 2011 when a pay scale agreement was signed but never implemented.  The back payments have to be made by 30 November 2016.  Apparently, the ruling will also see researchers in Parliament go from earning about R650,000 per annum to over R700,000 per annum.  It is also said that the decision puts pressure on the secretary of Parliament, Gengezi Mgidlana, in his current impasse with the National Education Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu).

• Read this report by Khulekani Magubane in full at BDLive

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