Post Office strike finally over but it will take 20 days to ease mail backlog
"We want to assure all beneficiaries that the IT challenges that impacted last month’s payment run have been resolved. We encourage all social grant beneficiaries to migrate to the new gold SASSA/SAPO card at pay-points."
Endumeni residents have been complaining for weeks over the none delivery of post. The strike by Communication Workers Union (CWU), the Democratic Postal Workers Union (Depacu), and the SA Postal Workers Union (Sapwu) saw mail backlogged around the country since July 3.
An agreement was reached which will see Post Office employees across the board will receive a salary increase of 6,5%, backdated to 1 April 2018. Furthermore, the contracted working hours for permanent part-time employees, have been moved from 21.5 hours per week to 27.5 hours per week. 500 of these positions are earmarked to be phased in as permanent full-time employees in due course, following an appropriate process.
Accumulated mail is expected to take roughly 20 work days to be processed.
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“SAPO appreciated the importance of the SASSA project and is committed to working closely with its employees to ensure the livelihoods of the most vulnerable are not put under unnecessary strain. Meanwhile, SAPO has reached a milestone of migrating 2.2 million SASSA beneficiaries to the new SASSA/SAPO issued gold card,” said post office CEO, Mark Barnes.
“We want to assure all beneficiaries that the IT challenges that impacted last month’s payment run have been resolved. We encourage all social grant beneficiaries to migrate to the new gold SASSA/SAPO card at pay-points.”
