Timeslive reports that a group of National Lotteries Commission (NLC) employees protested on Monday over wages outside their offices in Pretoria.  

The National Education Health & Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) and the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (Nupsaw) are demanding an 8.5% wage increase for the next year while the NLC is offering 7%.  About 145 of the NLC employees are apparently either Nupsaw or Nehawu members.  There is a second dispute over promotions, with claims that some vacancies are not filled or advertised.  “The employers (NLC) said they have the prerogative to promote as they wish without following the due processes‚” Nupsaw chairperson Sello Qhina said.  According to Nupsaw, they have met with the NLC 13 times between December last year and 13 August‚ but were “still at square one”.  The union added:  “Employers chose [to] undermine labour by imposing 7% and encouraging members to leave unions to be able to be paid while negotiations have not been concluded.”

• Read this report by Nico Gous in full at Timeslive

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