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City Press reports that employees of the Department of Home Affairs will be going strike if the department insists on making them work on Saturday without paying them overtime.
The Public Servants Association (PSA), which represents 75% of the department’s employees, on Wednesday served the department with a notice to strike after a “conciliation of a long-standing dispute on working hours” failed. The department has been given 10 days to review its policy, after which employees will engage in strike action, beginning on 19 June. Nehawu is still consulting about the proposed strike action. At a conciliation hearing on Wednesday, there was failure between the department and unions, including the PSA, Nehawu and National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers, to reach an agreement over the implementation of new opening and closing working hours. One of the main points of disputes is whether work on Saturdays should include overtime pay, a demand which the department cannot concede to at this point due to financial constraints.
- Read this report by Avantika Seeth in full at City Press
- Read too, Staking dreig by binnelandse sake, at Maroela Media
- And also, Home Affairs served with notice to strike, at SA Govt News Agency
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