TMG Digital/BusinessLive reports that the Department of Home Affairs is locked in an overtime pay dispute with unions which could see it scrapping Saturdays as part of its service offering.  

The National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (Nupsaw) will be to picketing over the issue on Friday.  Department director-general Mkuseli Apleni said that when the new system of working on Saturdays was introduced in 2005‚ officials were paid overtime, but “due to the department’s financial constraints‚ payment of overtime … was no longer financially sustainable.”  The issue has played out at the General Public Service Sectoral Bargaining Council‚ the Labour Court‚ the Labour Appeal Court and is now pending before the Constitutional Court.

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