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BusinessLive reports that acting director-general at the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA), Sam Vukela, appeared before Parliament’s portfolio committee on public service and administration on Wednesday.
He said the challenge of the ballooning public service wage bill was partly being addressed through a freeze on the filling of vacancies in the public service. Meantime, public service unions have entered the 2017 wage negotiations with tough demands. Among these are the abolishment of the bottom three salary levels in the public service, as well as the lifting of the moratorium on the filling of vacancies. The unions want the salaries of employees from levels four to seven to be raised by 12%, employees from levels eight to 10 by 11% and those on levels 11 and 12 by 10%. Vukela told the committee that all the labour demands made during the negotiations would cost the department about R483bn.
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