The government has approved the latest public wage deal, but there are major trade-offs, including future jobs in government sectors.
The government and trade unions in the Public Coordinating Bargaining Council have agreed on a two-year wage deal, but Treasury warns this has come at the cost of future jobs and the funding of public programmes as well as tackling overly-generous pay packages.
The National Treasury has estimated this revision to cost an additional R37.4 billion over the course of the 2023/24 financial period. After the Budget Speech, both Godongwana and the minister of Public Service and Administration Thulas Nxesi said that the government is grappling with a “balancing act” between wage increases and additional headcounts, saying “there’s always competition” between the two.
To cushion the wage increase, the following measures are being finalised, as outlined by the National Treasury:restricting recruitment of non-critical postsRestricting previously-planned recruitmentand programmes funded within the budget and allowing departments to shift funds towards the increased compensation costs;Reducing out-of-line remuneration in public entities
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