{"id":3274,"date":"2023-07-05T14:49:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2023-07-05T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T12:49:39","slug":"govt-to-put-measures-in-place-to-deal-with-cosatus-nationwide-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/2023\/07\/05\/govt-to-put-measures-in-place-to-deal-with-cosatus-nationwide-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to put measures in place to deal with Cosatu\u2019s nationwide strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government departments have been urged to implement contingency measures to deal with the planned nationwide socio-economic strike by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) on Thursday, 6 July.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest circular to all Heads of Departments, the Department of Public Service and Administration Director-General, Ms Yoliswa Makhasi, said while the planned nationwide strike is protected, essential service workers are not allowed to participate in the protest.<\/p>\n<p>COSATU has served NEDLAC with a notice to embark on socio-economic protest actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the notice, the protest will amongst others, involve a National Stay-Away or Socio-economic Strike commencing on the 06th of July 2023 from 00:00 until 23:59.<\/p>\n<p>The protest actions are protected in terms of section 77 of the Labour Relations Act, 66 of 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Since these are section 77 protest actions from the mentioned federation, workers in all sectors of the economy, including the public servants are allowed to participate in the strikes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssential Service workers are, however not allowed to participate in the strikes\/ protest actions during their working hours. If they do participate, their participation will constitute misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe principle of &#8220;No Work, No Pay&#8221; must be applied by departments. The principle should apply for the absence of a full day as well as part of a working day,\u201d said Ms Makhasi.<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General also emphasised that departments that do not implement the deductions will be in violation of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe &#8220;No Work, No Pay\u201d must be effected in the month of the protest, if possible, but not later than the next month after the protest action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo leave should be granted for purposes of participation in strikes\/protest actions. \u201cLeave should only be granted under the leave regulations, such as for leave purposes in terms of the regulations and not for protest action,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In relation to reporting on the strike action, departments are requested to provide the DPSA with the following information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of employees participating in the protest action for the duration of the protest, and the impact thereof, on the activities of the department, by 10:00 on the day of the protest action.<\/li>\n<li>An update of the above information by 15:00 on the same day; and<\/li>\n<li>A comprehensive report within three (3) days of the strike action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government departments have been urged to implement contingency measures to deal with the planned nationwide socio-economic strike by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) on Thursday, 6 July. In the latest circular to all Heads of Departments, the Department of Public Service and Administration Director-General, Ms Yoliswa Makhasi, said while the planned nationwide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","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\/3274","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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}