DispatchLive reports that Eastern Cape provincial traffic officers have stopped overtime duties following a long-running dispute with the department of transport over outstanding payments.  

Traffic officers in Nelson Mandela Bay, Cacadu, Amathole, OR Tambo, Alfred Nzo and Chris Hani district municipalities say they are owed between three to four months’ overtime pay.  Christopher Plaatjies of the Public Servants Association (PSA) said:  “We’ve decided that we won’t work overtime anymore until our overtime money is paid in full.  There will be no late shifts, no stand-bys, no escorts of VIPs and no emergency shifts over weekends.  We will only work from Monday to Friday.”  Other services expected to be affected by the stayaway include standbys at events including concerts, sport tournaments and funerals, and road blocks and drunken driving awareness campaigns.  The union has accused the department of transport of playing the blame-game by allegedly telling them that the fault lay with provincial treasury.

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