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Fin24 reports that that SA Road Passenger Bargaining Council (SARPBC) has ordered bus operator Putco to pay 7% of the 9% wage increase applicable this year and to pay the remaining 2% from January 2019.
Putco has also been ordered to pay bonuses for this year. This was reported by the SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) and was in response to Putco’s application for exemption from the wage agreement which brought an end to the national bus strike earlier this year. The agreement stipulated a 9% in the 2018 period and 8% in 2019. Putco apparently cited fuel price hikes as a reason for its application for exemption. Satawu indicated that it was now accordingly confident of a favourable decision in respect of Golden Arrow, which has also sought an exemption. Union spokesperson Zanele Sabela said: “We are very hopeful because of this finding. Putco was pleading poverty. Golden Arrow is not pleading poverty. For them it is not about money. They have paid the first year’s increase but are applying for an exemption from the 8% increase in the second year.” Sabela added that there was little room for Golden Arrow to plead poverty in its bargaining council submissions, as the operator’s profits jumped up 11% to R300m this year.
- Read this report by Khulekani Magubane in full at Fin24
- See too, CCMA orders Putco to pay wage agreement, at eNCA
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