Teachers accept 7% wage increase
Public servants will also receive a 28,5% medical aid subsidy per employee.
The lengthy wage increase negotiations are finally over as public servants accepted a 7% salary increase.
Their housing allowance will also increase from R900 to R1 200.
Public servants were initially demanding 15% when the negotiations began in September last year.
The employer however did not agree to their demands and offered them 4,8%.
They later moved from 15% to 10% when the negotiations continued in March.
Public servants threatened to embark on a strike if the employer failed to meet their demands.
Workers marched to the Treasury’s offices in Madiba Street in Pretoria on 23 April.
They delivered a memorandum with their demands to the Department of Public Service and Administration.
Some of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) members were picketing outside the Standerton Department of Education offices on the same day.
Government added only 1% to their initial offer, making it 5,8% to which workers said it was too little.
The negotiations continued and they finally reached a decision that was suitable to both parties.
Public servants will also receive a 28,5% medical aid subsidy per employee.
This is a three year deal and the government will add 1% in 2016 and 2017.
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