The SEIFSA offer to the trade unions in this year’s Main Agreement Negotiations
amounts to the following:
1. Duration
– A three-year deal
2. Wage Increases
– A guaranteed 4, 4% increase for all workers calculated on the scheduled rates and given to what a worker is actually earning per hour.
– A guaranteed CPI + 0,5% increase in year 2 i.e. 1 July 2022
– A guaranteed CPI + 1% increase in year 3 i.e. 1 July 2023
The 4,4% increase this year translates to the following impact on a worker’s
pay packet:
All workers covered by the Main Agreement are guaranteed a personal rands and cents increase as stipulated above irrespective of what they are actually earning per hour.
The new entry-level wage rates column as set out above sets out the minimum entry-level wage rates for new entrants into a company, with existing workers receiving the guaranteed personal increases as a rands/ cents adjustment to their actual rate per hour.
Negotiations with all the trade unions, facilitated by the CCMA, in an effort to break the deadlock continue tomorrow, Tuesday 24 August 2021.
We will continue to keep you fully informed as developments unfold.