{"id":2911,"date":"2023-04-01T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2023-04-01T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:05:09","slug":"public-sector-unions-accept-2023-24-wage-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/2023\/04\/01\/public-sector-unions-accept-2023-24-wage-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Public sector unions accept 2023\/24 wage offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trade unions representing the majority of public servants at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) have accepted government\u2019s wage increase offer of 7.5 % during the 2023\/24 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) in a statement released on Friday, March 31, 2023. According to the DPSA, the 2023\/24 public service wage negotiations were concluded during a special PSCBC meeting on Thursday, March 30, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The employer\u2019s offer has been signed as a resolution of the PSCBC and is binding on all parties to the Council. The accepted offer will be implemented with effect from 1 April 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unpacking the employer\u2019s final offer <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The settlement agreement for 2023\/24 that has been signed entails the following provisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A two-year multi-term agreement for the Financial Year 2023\/24 and Financial Year 2024\/25.<\/li>\n<li>Pensionable salary increases of 7.5% for employees on levels 1 \u2013 12 packaged as follows:<\/li>\n<li>Translation of the current non-pensionable cash gratuity at the value of 4.2% on the baseline.<\/li>\n<li>A nominal increase of 3.3% across the board.<\/li>\n<li>Pay progression of 1.5% for all qualifying Public Servants shall continue as per the existing dispensation across all Departments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The non-pensionable cash allowance will be translated into the pensionable increase on the baseline with effect from 1 April 2023, without disadvantaging any employee in terms of the cash net effect into the pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade unions representing the majority of public servants at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) have accepted government\u2019s wage increase offer of 7.5 % during the 2023\/24 fiscal year. This was confirmed by the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) in a statement released on Friday, March 31, 2023. According to the DPSA, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","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\/2911","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=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}