Cosatu wants Mchunu to step down after asking for public input on wage dispute
30 April 2021 10:11 AM
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Labour federation Cosatu has called on Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu to step aside amid a deadlock in public sector wage talks.
On Monday, Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu called on South Africans to help him resolve the deadlocked public service wage negotiations.
The government has refused to budge from a 0% wage increase this year while labour unions are demanding a CPI plus 4% increase.
Cosatu s first deputy president Mike Shingange says Mchunu s call for the public to provide proposals undermines the collective bargaining process.
The job of rebuilding the SA Revenue Service (SARS) has not been easy, Commissioner Edward Kieswetter told a public service conference this week adding that even the final report of the Nugent Commission of Inquiry into SARS did not tell the full story of how badly things had declined.
When Kieswetter took office in March 2019, his first order of business was an analysis of the state of affairs at the tax body.
“We concluded that since 2014 SARS had experienced a massive failure in governance and integrity,” Kieswetter said. This had been overseen by “compromised and corrupt leadership”.
After visiting SARS offices countrywide, Kieswetter said he detected “high levels of trauma” within the organisation, and an erosion of employee morale for those employees who remained.
Mchunu: Nothing wrong with asking public to help solve civil servant wage talks Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu insisted that he had ideas but needed the public to bolster it. Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu at a media briefing on the coronavirus on 25 March 2020 in Pretoria. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN
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JOHANNESBURG - Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu said that there was nothing wrong with calling on South Africans to help resolve the deadlock in wage negotiations with public servants.
He said that he was simply “enriching ideas to make it better”.
In an irregular move this week, Mchunu turned to the public for ideas after labour and government failed to agree on a way forward on public sector wage negotiations, with government refusing to budge from a 0% wage increase this year.
There is nothing wrong with asking SA to resolve wage talks - Senzo Mchunu
28 April 2021 8:11 AM
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The Public Service and Administration Minister says there is an impasse and something needs to be done to resolve it.
Labour and government have failed to reach an agreement in the public service wage negotiations.
The Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu, has called on South Africans to assist in resolving the deadlocked public service wage negotiations.
Speaking to Bongani Bingwa Mchunu the South African government is in office as a result of the vote by the people.
There is nothing strange about interacting with the people of South Africa on the matter. There is nothing strange with saying that someone in the public may have a better idea in resolving the deadlock.