Public Service and Administration Acting Minister, Mr Thulas Nxesi has condemned the ransomware attack at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC).<\/p>\n
The (PSCBC), General Public Service Sector Bargaining Council (GPSSBC) and the Safety and Security Sector Bargaining Council (SSSBC) experienced a cyber-attack on our information communication technology (ICT) systems over the period 24th \u2013 28th February 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe condemn in the strongest terms possible the ransomware attack at the PSCBC\u2026this is unfortunate incident, and we are confident that the PSCBC will recover from this with the least implication to the administrative functioning of the Council and restoring of our historical institutional records in full,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n The joint Executive Committees of the Councils in a special meeting on February 28, 2023, agreed to invoke a force majeure (supervening impossibility) on dispute resolution processes from the March 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023. <\/span><\/p>\n During this period, the Councils will focus efforts on recovering and restoring operations where after a further assessment will be done. <\/span><\/p>\n The force majeure is only applicable to dispute resolution functions and collective bargaining processes will continue as per normal business. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Public Service and Administration Acting Minister, Mr Thulas Nxesi has condemned the ransomware attack at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC). The (PSCBC), General Public Service Sector Bargaining Council (GPSSBC) and the Safety and Security Sector Bargaining Council (SSSBC) experienced a cyber-attack on our information communication technology (ICT) systems over the period 24th \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}