03 Feb 2020

Government will continue to implement agreed public service salary increments from the 2019 negotiations, finance minister, Dr Thapelo Matsheka has announced.

He told Parliament when delivering the budget speech yesterday that this would be an effort to maintain cordial industrial relations between government and public sector unions.

The negotiated and agreed increments were a 10 per cent salary increment awarded to the A and B salary bands as well as a six per cent increment to the C and D bands for the 2019/2010 and 2020/2021 financial years.

Dr Matsheka said engagement with public sector unions should be about transformation and improvements on the delivery of services for the economy.

“The reform and transformation programme should start with government and the union leadership,” he added. ENDS