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BL Premium reports that unions in the motor industry are frustrated over Department of Employment & Labour (DEL) Minister Thulas Nxesi’s “delay” in gazetting a collective wage agreement signed by parties.
After protracted negotiations, the three-year wage deal was signed by the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), the Motor Industry Staff Association (Misa), the Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI) and the Fuel Retailers Association (FRA) at the Motor Industry Bargaining Council (Mibco) in November. The motor sector, which employs about 306,000 workers nationally, represents employees in components manufacturing companies, fuel stations, car dealerships, car cleaning companies, auto parts assembly and panel-beating workshops. According to the wage agreement, workers will receive a 7.5% increase in the first year, followed by increases of 6% in the second and third years. However, the collective wage agreement only becomes binding on parties after Nxesi has published it in the Government Gazette, and this has been the main point of frustration for unions. Misa’s Sonja Carstens said their members “are extremely frustrated” with the delay in the publication of the Government Gazette containing the Mibco agreement. She said the delay was caused by the DEL “questioning this and that, and some of the wording in the main collective agreement.” Mibco Representatives will apparently be meeting DEL officials again this week to iron out some of the questions from the department. Thembinkosi Mkalipi, chief director of labour relations at the DEL, advised: “We received a draft agreement in December that we commented on; [Mibco] still have to submit a signed agreement, with a request for the minister to publish [it in the Government Gazette].”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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