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Vaal Weekblad reports that amid a worsening revenue crisis and failure to pay service providers, general workers at Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM) reportedly earn R19,000 per month.
This is one of the reasons organised business has urged that ELM should immediately halt a recruitment drive, launched in December last year. But ELM spokesperson Stan Gaba said the move was in response to ongoing personnel attrition at ELM. He did not comment on the exorbitant salaries advertised for unskilled workers, but seemed to recognise that there was poor management and “lack of resources” to manage personnel properly. The Golden Triangle Chamber of Commerce (GTCoC) said it opposed the recruitment drive as it was simply unaffordable for the cash-strapped ELM, and the additional financial burden would also derail the municipality’s own Financial Recovery Plan (FRP). “ELM simply cannot afford to take on new employees – full stop! ELM is already in desperate financial strains and cannot even manage existing employees effectively in the first place,” said GTCoC CEO, Klippies Kritzinger. He called for an immediate moratorium on further recruitment. “ELM is already diverting national grant funding illegally to pay its R120 million per month salary bill,” a political source indicated.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by The Citizen
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