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ANA reports that the National Education Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) has signed an agreement with the Department of Home Affairs to avert an imminent strike over working hours at the department.
The union indicated that the agreement confirms “that workers will revert back to the working conditions that were applied prior to the introduction of the imposed new working hours by the department's director general." The dispute saw employees threatening to down tools from Monday. Nehawu’s general secretary‚ Bereng Soke said that according to the agreement‚ “an understanding and a directive was reached that the department must table in the bargaining chamber a proposal on the new working arrangements for negotiations with labour”.
- Read this report in full at IOL News
- Read too, Strike by Home Affairs employees averted, at TimesLive
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