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Timeslive reports that Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela is set to intervene in a seven-week impasse between Durban University of Technology (DUT) management and staff‚ which has resulted in the academic programme being suspended.
Manamela will meet with the affected parties on Tuesday after the institution implemented a lockout last week. Three labour unions representing disgruntled staff turned to the Labour Court on Friday in a bid to get the institution’s decision to dock salaries of striking workers overturned. But, DUT spokesman Alan Khan said the principle of "no work‚ no pay" was still in place and, according to him, the unions withdrew the matter. Addressing journalists last Thursday, vice-chancellor Professor Thandwa Mthembu warned that the institution "may have to kiss this year goodbye" if the impasse over staff salaries was not resolved soon. Mthembu said the university "simply does not have the money being required by the staff", indicating that if they acceded to 10% pay hike‚ a R400 housing allowance and a R9‚000 once-off bonus‚ “R62-million would be required to meet the demand."
- Read this report by Suthentira Govender in full at Timeslive
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