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    Public sector workers handed huge wages defeat in concourt

    By Agency Staff28 February 2022
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    The constitutional court has upheld a ruling by a lower court that allowed the government to renege on salary increases for public servants, bolstering its efforts to rein in runaway debt and the budget deficit.

    The court announced the ruling in a judgment published on its website on Monday.

    The government backtracked on an agreement to raise pay for about 1.3 million employees in 2020, the final year of a three-year deal. The move was as part of an effort to contain its wage bill, which grew at an inflation-beating annual average rate of 7.3% before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The labour court in December 2020 dismissed an application by unions to force the state to fulfil the accord.

    Monday’s ruling means the government won’t have to find additional funds to make good on the agreement or bolster efforts to reduce its headcount. While honouring the deal would have cost the government R37-billion in the 2021 fiscal year, it would have now been on the hook for R75-billion rand in back pay for civil servants, Absa Group economists, including Peter Worthington and Miyelani Maluleke, said in research note on Monday that cited national treasury officials.

    The ruling comes ahead of another round of wage negotiations.

    The Public Servant’s Association, which represents more than 240 000 state workers, said it intends to seek increases equivalent to the consumer inflation rate — which currently stands at 5.7% — plus two percentage points, and that it wants a single-year wage deal. That compares with a budget estimate for the state’s annual salary bill to rise by an average of 1.8% annually over the next three fiscal years.

    Remuneration costs account for about a third of total government expenditure, and agreeing to demands for continued inflation-beating increases would compromise the medium-term fiscal framework presented by finance minister Enoch Godongwana on 23 February.  — S’thembile Cele, (c) 2022 Bloomberg LP



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