BDLive reports that parliamentary staff represented by the National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) downed tools on Thursday to picket over the application of the "no work, no pay" principle in relation to last year’s industrial action.  

The chairman of Nehawu’s parliamentary branch, Sthembiso Tembe, said that secretary of Parliament Gengezi Mgidlana wanted to impose pay deductions for days that the union’s members were on strike as well as days when they were locked out of Parliament between 25 November and 5 December last year.  Saying that they were not against ‘no work, no pay’ if it was transparent, Tembe noted that the deductions, if imposed as per Mgidlana’s wishes, would be for close to nine days of no work and would range from R900 to R7,000, depending on the affected worker’s category.

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