“If we assume a drop in nominal GDP of 4% this year and increases of 4% in each of the next two years, and we want to decrease payroll costs by 10.5% by 2025/26, aggregate payroll costs can increase by no more than 1.8% a year in nominal terms.The release of the report comes at a time when Cosatu is holding its three-day bargaining, organising and campaigns conference from Monday.
The government has refused to implement the last leg of a three-year wage agreement signed in the public sector co-ordinating bargaining council in 2018 for 1.3 million public servants, because it does not have the money to do so.the SA public service was not large in per capita terms, but unusually well remunerated when compared to a basket of other countries;
the average remuneration of public servants in SA was high by international standards, when compared to private sector employees and per capita GDP; and
7) The problem is not wage bill. The problem is decreasimg fiscus, budget deficit and huge borrowing. 8) You can reduce the wage bill to zero but in time, that won't help too until gvnmnt addresses was needs to be addressed.
5) Fight corruption & attrack foreign investment thus increasing fiscus and improving economy. An improved economy will make the current wage bill to apprear to be less ratio wise. 6) Just improve governance and there won't be complaints of hifh wage bill
3) Tighten law enforcement thus discourage offenders therefore fewer prisons and prison warders eating up fiscus through salaries. 4) Reduce unemployment so that people are able to have private medical options rather than public where more nurses are needed and hence salaries
That’s rubbing all in the name of reducing state capacity
1) Gvnmnt needs to preach reduced birthrate so that there are fewer teachers, fewer nurses etc. In this way wage bill is reduced. 2. Stop incentivising uncontrolled birthrate through child support grant. This will lead to fewer poor children needing a lot of nurses and teachers.
Which high?
As Public servants, we worked tirelessly during the covid-19 pandemic to save lives, loosing our own in the process. Now the profiteers undermine and call us unproductive
Lol.
Sa needs to address the high cost of everything