The labour action started a day before 2017/18 filing deadline.
In a statement on Thursday, the South African Revenue Service announced it had obtained an interim Labour Court order interdicting National Education and Health and Allied Workers’ Union and Public Servants’ Association members from picketing in places other than those specified in the CCMA picketing rules issued on 18 March 2018.
He said both the employer and organised labour were to meet on Friday at the CCMA to engage in formal discussions in a bid to amend the picketing rules. About 150 people picketed at the Sars branch in the Durban city centre. And in Cape Town about 100 employees picketed at the Sats offices on the Foreshore. Employees from the Bellville office also participated. A union member said that the queue for Sars had been extremely long at 6am in the morning, but by the time GroundUp arrived there was no queue, as people had given up.
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