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TimesLive Premium reports that the City of Johannesburg says a pay disparity dispute that is causing ructions in the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) will be settled by 21 October.
Several senior JMPD officers are “fed up” with newly employed junior officers earning higher hourly rates than them. And being called on to help train the new recruits is rubbing salt into the wounds. A senior officer who has been at the department for about a decade claimed that she and other long-standing officers earned R151 per hour, while newer recruits earned up to R170 per hour. “That is for four shifts of 12 hours each per week. People may think R20 is nothing, but that means we get paid just less than R29,000, while newer officers earn just over R32,000 a month. That is unfair,” she pointed out. A Labour Court hearing on the issue was scheduled for 30 August, but the municipality’s legal team apparently asked the applicant to stand down pending a settlement offer. JMPD spokesperson Xolani Fihla said the public safety department had started addressing the problem and added that: “The department wants to look into the matter and deal with it outside court. We are hopeful that the matter with all of the officers affected will be settled by Friday October 21.” SA Municipal Workers’ Union official Karabo Ramahuma said pay discrepancies were nothing new among JMPD members and that the “revolving door at the mayor’s office” was not helping matters. He added that JMPD officers have been up in arms about the disparities “for years”.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Hendrik Hancke at TimesLive (subscriber access only)
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