Pretoria News that after nearly a year of haggling defined by protests and breakdown in talks, the University of South Africa (Unisa) on Monday announced an agreement to insource all outsourced services.
Unisa council chairman Sakhi Simelane said that they would be appointing 910 out of 1,413 affected staff members within the cleaning, security, gardening and waste-removal services to permanent positions. An ex gratia salary payment of R3,500 for three months (totalling R10,500) would be made to all staff who were not selected for insourced employment. However, this agreement was not well received by the EFF Student Command. It distanced itself from the deal, which it said excluded 503 workers. National president Mpho Morolane said they refused to be party to the resolutions agreed upon and went as far as calling it a raw deal. He said parties must go back to the drawing board.
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