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News24 reports that the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) says it is "shocked" and "angered" by Minister Aaron Motsoaledi's intentions to classify the Department of Home Affairs as a security department.
Motsoaledi's pronouncement on the matter in parliament came after EFF member Rosina Ntshetsana Komane asked him a question about the reasons the department discontinued working on a Saturday. In response, he said: "Should we agree, the department will be forced into paying overtime for life/permanent overtime and this is untenable. The department has submitted to Cabinet a Home Affairs Bill which will change the nature of [the] home affairs department into a security department, which is entitled to open...weekends." The minister also said discontinuing work on Saturdays had affected the department negatively. But Nehawu said matters pertaining to the conditions of service and scope of work for public servants were discussed at the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council and at the General Public Service Sector Bargaining Council - not through public pronouncements. The union urged the minister against preoccupation with media populism and said he should rather focus on the core functions of the department. "Home Affairs is currently struggling to fill over 9,000 vacant posts and as the union, we have been fighting for the filling of these vacant funded posts in the department,” the union pointed out.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Cebelihle Mthethwa at News24
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