Eskom has announced that non-managerial employees will receive a 7% salary increase over three years from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2026.<\/p>\n
This followed successful negotiations between Eskom, the National Union of Mineworkers, the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa, and Solidarity at the Central Bargaining Forum.<\/p>\n
“In addition, these parties agreed to a 7% increase in the housing allowance over the three-year period, and a once-off taxable payment of R10,000 for the first two years,” Eskom said.<\/p>\n
Acting Eskom CEO, Calib Cassim, said the agreements would help to stabilise the power utility.<\/p>\n
“The collective agreement will go a long way in stabilising our organisation by providing Eskom with sufficient space and time to collaboratively work together to urgently address our most pressing challenges,” said Cassim.<\/p>\n
“It is worth noting that this is the first time in more than a decade that the parties have reached agreement in the room.”<\/p>\n
For example, in June 2022, Eskom employees engaged in unprotected strike action at the power utility’s power plants after wage negotiations broke down.<\/p>\n
The strikes resulted in intensified load-shedding<\/a><\/strong> at the time, as protestors intimidated other Eskom employees to keep them away from work.<\/p>\n Some protestors went so far as to attack the homes of other employees<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with petrol bombs.<\/p>\n Eskom and various worker unions agreed on a 7% wage increase at the Central Bargaining Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":472089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27995],"tags":[57354,181,35,69717,69715,143],"class_list":["post-496647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-calib-cassim","tag-eskom","tag-headline","tag-national-union-of-metalworkers-of-south-africa-numsa","tag-national-union-of-mineworkers-num","tag-solidarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read: What Stage 16 load-shedding would look like<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"