Wage Increases

These workers could see double-digit increases in their minimum wage

Unions are likely to accept the state’s latest public sector wage offer and bring to an end seven months of negotiations and the threat of a strike.

Renewables projects have provided new jobs with higher salaries and brought new economic activity into the Northern Cape.

Amcu, the biggest union at Amplats, will ask members to decide on a possible strike in January after a two-week break.

The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union has lowered its demand of R12 500 a month for workers at Impala Platinum, says the union.

Higher wage trends have ensured that parastatals largely avoided work stoppages this season.

De Beers and the National Union of Mineworkers have reached an agreement of a nine percent wage increase.

Amcu is insisting that gold mines more than double the wages of entry-level workers, raising the stakes for pay talks set for early next month.

A pay deal is in sight to end a nationwide strike by bus drivers, the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union has said.

Satawu union members marched through the streets of Jo’burg to demand a wage increase for bus drivers.

Agricultural unions are urging their members to apply to the labour department for exemptions.

Agreeing to increases without assessing their effect on the market poses risks for investors

The Cape Chamber of Commerce says Cosatu actually makes the unemployment situation worse with its unreasonable demands for wage increases.