Pikitup and Samwu agree to ‘city-wide process to resolve salary disparities’
by Staff Writer,
2015-12-04 14:57:56.0
THE Pikitup industrial action that came to an end on Thursday appeared to have beneficial results for the City of Johannesburg’s employees.
Among the agreements reached at a bilateral meeting of the local authority and the South African Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) was a "city-wide process to resolve salary disparities".
According to a statement from Gauteng Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Jacob Mamabolo’s office, this process would "include, among others‚ the objective consideration of Samwu’s input and benchmarking".
The disparities process "will prioritise Pikitup employees"‚ and the preliminary phase of this would be to finalise "the overall cost within two weeks" of the agreement being signed.
This was with a view to "improve and enhance the negotiation process between the parties to be finalised by the end of February 2016"‚ the statement said.
In February, a three-month process would start "to establish if the relationship between the MD of Pikitup and employees can improve".
MD Amanda Nair’s management style was one of Samwu’s major complaints during the two-week strike.
The exercise "will also include assessment of the factors that contributed to the current strike‚ and how such factors will guide the process of levelling of charges against employees or otherwise".
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THE Pikitup industrial action that came to an end on Thursday appeared to have beneficial results for the City of Johannesburg’s employees.
Among the agreements reached at a bilateral meeting of the local authority and the South African Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) was a "city-wide process to resolve salary disparities".
According to a statement from Gauteng Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Jacob Mamabolo’s office, this process would "include, among others‚ the objective consideration of Samwu’s input and benchmarking".
The disparities process "will prioritise Pikitup employees"‚ and the preliminary phase of this would be to finalise "the overall cost within two weeks" of the agreement being signed.
This was with a view to "improve and enhance the negotiation process between the parties to be finalised by the end of February 2016"‚ the statement said.
In February, a three-month process would start "to establish if the relationship between the MD of Pikitup and employees can improve".
MD Amanda Nair’s management style was one of Samwu’s major complaints during the two-week strike.
The exercise "will also include assessment of the factors that contributed to the current strike‚ and how such factors will guide the process of levelling of charges against employees or otherwise".
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