A deadlock was reached at the CCMA with the revenue service offering a 7% increase.
The South African Revenue Service said on Wednesday that workers had rejected its latest wage proposal, insisting on an across-the-board increase of 11.4%, and it could therefore not disregard a strike on Thursday.
It said negotiations had continued despite unions referring a dispute to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation, and Arbitration in February. It said on Monday it had tabled a differentiated salary increase model for employees which could see top performing employees paid at the lower end receiving increases up to 9.2%. In this model, no employee would receive an increase of less than 5.2%.
“Engagements continued yesterday until late at senior leadership level between Sars and the unions’ leaders. Engagements centred on the CCMA mediator’s proposal of 8 March 2019 of an 8% increase as a possible settlement to the dispute.”
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