The Cape Chamber of Commerce and opposition parties have slammed the City for continuing with salary hikes for its top officials amid the financial crunch brought on by the Covid-19 lockdown. TheCapeArgus
Cape Town - The Cape Chamber of Commerce and opposition parties have slammed the City for continuing with salary hikes for its top officials amid the financial crunch brought on by the Covid-19 lockdown.“This new City budget reflects all the characteristics of the previous draft circulated for comment on March 26 - it’s still aimed primarily at voters in the upcoming municipal elections,” Chamber president Geoff Jacobs said.
The City “has cut expenditure in many areas that are not urgent but it has left salaries and wages untouched, except for a token reduction in the annual bonuses which are dwarfed by the 6.5% annual increase everyone on the City payroll gets. This at a time when large swathes of the Cape’s private sector workforce are on half pay, on unpaid leave, or have been retrenched”, he said.
ACDP councillor Demetrius Dudley said: “Each financial year, the Minister of Co-operative Government, after consultation with MECs for local government in each province, determines the upper limits of the salaries, allowances and benefits of the members of the municipal councils. The determination which makes provision for an increase must be agreed to by a full council, with a supporting majority vote.
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