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SEIFSA OFFER TO THE TRADE UNIONS

The SEIFSA offer to the trade unions in this year’s Main Agreement Negotiations amounts to the following:

Duration

A three year deal

Wage Increases

A guaranteed 4, 4% increase for all workers calculated on the scheduled rates and given to what a worker is actually earning per hour.

A guaranteed CPI + 0,5% increase in year 2 i.e. 1 July 2022

A guaranteed CPI + 1% increase in year 3 i.e. 1 July 2023

The 4,4% increase this this year translates to the following impact on a worker’s pay packet:


By way of a practical example:

A worker at Rate H currently earning R 49,55 will receive a 4,4% increase per hour or a R 2,18c increase adjusting his/her rate to R 51,73 per hour.

This amounts to a new weekly rate of R 2 069.20 Or R 8 959.63 per month.

This amount excludes your guaranteed 15 or 20 days paid leave, leave bonus, 30 days paid sick leave, family responsibility leave, paid public holidays, contributions towards provident and pension fund, contributions to the sick pay fund, COIDA, UIF, SDL, MEIBC levies, PPE and various COVID compliance obligations.

The above all amounts to an additional cost to employment for the employer of approx. 40% – meaning that a Rate H worker or general labourer covered by the Main Agreement total cost to employment to the employer amounts to R 12 543.63 per month

Final note from Lucio

All workers covered by the Main Agreement are guaranteed a personal rands and cents increase as stipulated above irrespective of what they are actually earning per hour.

The new entry level wage rates column as set out above sets out the minimum entry level wage rates for new entrants into a company, with existing workers receiving the guaranteed personal increases as a rands/ cents adjustment to their actual rate per hour.

Negotiations with all the trade unions, facilitated by the CCMA, in an effort to break the deadlock continue tomorrow,
Tuesday 24 August 2021.

We will continue to keep you fully informed as developments unfold.