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BusinessLive reports that the private security sector has signed a four-year wage deal that will see workers earning more than R7,000 a month in the last year of an agreement seen as likely to strengthen labour peace and stability in the sector.
In the first year of the deal, which comes into effect in March 2023, employees will get a 13% increase. In the second year of the agreement, which was signed at the National Bargaining Council for the Private Security Sector at Midrand on Tuesday, workers will get a 6.5% increase, followed by 7.5% hikes in years three and four. SA’s private security industry employs about 500,000 security personnel. The unions, including the SA National Security and Allied Workers' Forum and the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union, initially demanded a 16% wage increase and then declared a deadlock when the parties could not reach agreement. Speaking for employers at a media briefing, security industry veteran Franz Verhufen said: “This four-year agreement will take us to 19 years of bargaining without a strike. The last strike [in the sector] was in 2006.” He commended the parties for the way they conducted themselves during negotiations that started in March/April. The agreement will be forwarded to employment & labour minister Thulas Nxesi to gazette and extend across the sector. Khumbulani Moyo, a spokesperson for the private security sector unions, said about 28 unions supported the wage deal which he believed was taking the industry in the right direction.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive
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