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BL Premium reports that parties to the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) are to meet again next week after failing this week to broker a wage hike deal for the 2022/2023 financial year.
Public service unions and government representatives met at the PSCBC on Tuesday to continue with negotiations. This followed the employer’s rejection on 19 May of labour’s demands for a 10% pay hike across the board, tabled at the bargaining council on 4 May. The state rejected most of the unions’ demands and instead proposed the extension of the R1,000 after-tax cash gratuity to the more than 1.3-million employees and a 1.5% pay progression hike, which is linked to years of service and is always pencilled into the budget. PSCBC general secretary Frikkie de Bruin said in a statement: “The employer tabled various scenarios on the possible distribution of the R20.5b available within the fiscal framework. These scenarios included a proposed 4.5% increase across the board, a proposed sliding scale distribution from 6% for level 1 [lowest-paid employees] to 3.5% for level 12 [senior management], and a sliding scale scenario from 15.4% for level 1 to 1.5% for level 12.” He went on to indicate: “Labour rejected the scenarios presented by the employer and proposed a further two scenarios for consideration based on an 8% [for senior management] and 9% [for lowest-paid employees] increase on the base line across the board.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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