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BL Premium reports that SA Revenue Service (SARS) employees have rejected a last-ditch R500m revised offer tabled by the tax agency in a bid to derail a wage strike starting on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the workers said the revised offer would translate to a wage increase only of 1.3% and a R3,000 one-off cash gratuity. The Public Servants Association (PSA) and the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) are demanding increases of 11.5% and 12%, respectively. They previously turned down the employer’s initial offer of 0%. The PSA’s Reuben Maleka indicated on Tuesday that the union’s membership had rejected the R500m offer to break the wage deadlock. Nehawu spokesperson Lwazi Nkolonzi said the union was engaging its membership on the revised offer, but stressed they would join the strike on Wednesday. “We are going to have two national marches, one in Tshwane where our members will march to the National Treasury and to the SARS headquarters. Another march will be held in Cape Town, where workers will march to the SARS offices there,” Nkolonzi advised. Claiming that the agency had not received a funding allocation for salary increases from the National Treasury, SARS spokesperson Sobantu Ndlangalavu said the revised offer “serves as a full and final settlement of the dispute relating to the salary increase demand of the 2022/2023 substantive wage negotiations”.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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