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EWN reports that the United National Transport Union (Untu) has applied to the Labour Court to have the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) held in contempt of court after the state-owned company failed to pay backdated salary increases to some of its workers for the 2021/22 financial year.
This after Prasa missed last week’s initial deadline to calculate and start payment of the outstanding salaries. The Labour Court recently ordered the agency to honour a three-year wage agreement that provided for employees affiliated with Untu to be paid a 5% wage increase for each financial year between 2020 and 2023. While Prasa has approached the transport union's leaders, calling for a meeting to talk payment plans, the embattled company has failed to abide with parts of the court order. Untu general secretary Cobus van Vuuren said the union also wanted a writ of execution to have Prasa’s bank accounts attached. “If the contempt of court is issued then, of course, there will be an arrest,” he stated.
- Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Nokukhanya Mntambo at EWN
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