SABC News writes that Labour unions are accusing the Department of Employment and Labour of attempting to change working conditions without proper consultation. Mpumalanga National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) Secretary, Welcome Mnisi, says the department must employ more traffic officers before introducing the flexi-shift system among others.

“If you can count the number of employees that we have in terms of the traffic officers vs the organogram, what we are supposed to have. it will be clearly indicative that these workers that are in the system are overworked. Hence, there is a need that the employer hires more traffic officials,” he says.

“The other second matter that we have raised to the employer is the shortage of tools of trade. Among other things, it includes your vehicles, which are also hijacked in Mpumalanga province, the state vehicles and the absence of any signed agreement,” Mnisi adds.

by Mthobisi Mkhaliphi