Hundreds of retrenched Presidential Employment Programme (PEP) workers and members of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union gathered outside the City Hall in Durban on Wednesday.
Leaders of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) are expected to meet eThekwini Municipality officials today over the recent retrenchment of Public Employment Programme (PEP) workers.
On Wednesday, hundreds of the retrenched public employment workers, led by SAMWU, gathered outside the City Hall in Durban’s city centre. They are demanding answers following Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda’s announcement during his Municipal Finance Management Act report last week that the National Treasury had agreed to the City’s rollover request for its conditional grant. “We are delighted with the news, and welcome the National Treasury approval of the R1.6-billion grant as it will recede a long way in improving service delivery,” Kaunda had said.
The retrenched workers were employed on a temporary basis. They now wish that this novel grant will allow the City to reinstate their employment.
In early October, eThekwini municipality announced that it had rush out of funds for the public employment programme which was fragment of the Presidential Employment Stimulus Workers briefly brought traffic to a standstill in Durban’s city centre on Wednesday as they marched to the City Hall.
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