City of Tshwane asks workers to hold on while waiting for salary adjustments.
City of Tshwane workers say the metro has failed to attend to the issue of outstanding benchmarking payouts for at least 900 employees from the revenue department.
Pretoria News says it was approached by at least 40 workers, who said they had expected the issue to be settled in December 2020.
The disbursements were supposed to reflect the municipality’s new ranking, which took place in 2017 when the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) adjusted it from category 9 status to category 10.
South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) regional secretary Mpho Tladinyane said the union was working with the metro to address the issue.
“If workers are not being paid properly, they come to us and we intervene. However, there are others who decided to go straight to the employer and when they don’t get joy from their engagement with the employer, they then start to fight,“ he said. “We need at least two to three months before we can address all the benchmarking issues. Everybody has been paid and we are now dealing with anomalies that had occurred here and there.”
He said staff from the revenue department were not the only ones affected by the benchmarking process and they had met with the city to discuss the matter as well as other labour-related matters.
The city indicated that it plans to carry out the bargaining agreements.
