Eskom union wants performance bonuses, electricity allowance, danger pay - and 15% pay hike | Business

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Wage talks are set to start at Eskom next week. In addition to a 15% pay hike, here are NUM's other demands - ranging from a R7 000 housing allowance to a cellphone and electricity allowance. | News24_Business

Eskom's biggest union wants a pay hike of 15% as well as the reinstatement of performance bonuses and a R7 000 housing allowance.

This year's wage talks follow an impasse in 2022 that culminated in an unprotected strike which dealt a heavy blow to Eskom's already fragile capacity to generate electricity. The state-owned power utility ultimately reached a 7% wage increase agreement with unions after a week of protests and escalating load shedding.

It further wants the company contribution to medical aid to shift to 80%, with a 20% contribution by employees, as well as a standard cellphone allowance of R1 000 plus a R1 500 electricity allowance for Eskom workers. The union also wants Eskom's study benefit scheme – known internally as the Jan H Smith scheme – to increase to R20 000 per child.A R10 000 vehicle allowance for all employees that qualify for Eskom's so-called vehicle X-scheme;For certain lower salary scales to be scrapped altogether and for all employees to be shifted to a different level;Four weeks of paternity leave without impacting contingency leave;And for anyone retiring at 60 to leave with no penalties.

 

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_Business You can't get more for doing fokol

_Business 🫨🫨🫨

_Business Take take take. Take quick almost all gone.

_Business And the unions will get their way and the citizens will get even less electricity

_Business ALL THIS FOR KEEPING THE COUNTRY IN THE DARK....THESE UNIONS....

_Business Retrench all of those insisting on those ridiculous, insensitive, immature and short-sighted demands !!!

_Business

_Business Also, ‘electricity allowance’😭😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️🤣

_Business Eskom employees(permanent and contract) should be exempt from Loadshedding like the ministers imo…🙂

_Business This is the funniest thing i have ever heard.Salary increase for the why mara?With the loadshedding we are experiencing currently,i am sure eskom can function with only one person to switch power on or off.

_Business This is an anomaly, we are in darkness, yet these people demand 2x inflation rate, they should just be glad that they have jobs

_Business Tik hulle? 🤔

_Business No work = No pay

_Business OK give in to their demands and in 3 months everyone can join the unemployment line. Business are closing . Food prices are souring. Cyril is lieing. Tax base is leaving. People are fed up. So do it and raise the tariff further and see.

_Business Free housing🤔

_Business They want tthese UNREALISTIC things. To force ESKOM they resort to sabotage. Eskom is bloated by 66%.

_Business Are they f$&king mad!!!

_Business How tax money is a feeding trough

_Business Performance and Eskom in the same sentence?😂😂

_Business Definitely stage 10. If Eskom can't afford their wage demands

_Business Die unions se moer man. Da is nie eers krag nie maar hulle soek donnerse geld. Nee fok man.

_Business OMG these unions and eskom employees are one big joke. I'm sure more can be done with less workers. Or is it holding ANC TO RANSOM PRIOR TO ELECTION

_Business People know how to get good jobs 🙄 cellphone and electric allowance

_Business Fire the whole fucking bunch

_Business But Eskom is not preforming to the required level

_Business What performance

_Business Electricity allowance? Sure, we currently have 6 stages, which one can we sign you up for?

_Business worse situation is coming,

_Business I don't want an electricity allowance, I want electricity!

_Business It's electricity allowance for me. Inene sikhaphe abantu thina apha empilweni.

_Business An electricity allowance 🤭🤭🤭

_Business Performance based bonuses would mean they all work for free, I can live with that.

_Business Once again the these criminal unions will hold the country to ransom! They have a blank check to demand whatever they want...no matter how ridiculous their demands.

_Business Look, it’s funny. No doubt. But they may as well ask and push for what they can get, right? The end is almost here. Eskom is nearly dead. Only after it hits rock bottom will proper rebuilding happen. Everything being done now is just fluff.

_Business While cosatu and affiliates unions betrayed workers with non existing 7,5%🤑🤑

_Business OMG😲

_Business Whats new 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

_Business Electricity allowance🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

_Business What f ing performance 😡😡

_Business Electricity allowance...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

_Business The Eskom workers are determined to milk the cow dry.

_Business bayanya

_Business Mxm. The more the tax payers are forced to pay for electricity the more the unions demands for 'workers benefits' at Eskom. When will the unions understand that the increases in electricity charges isn't for profit but to fix Eskom, as we are told. Damnit!

_Business They should get performance bonus as stages, for evey stage your salary should decrease.

_Business Why not if some of their colleagues are getting it let it be mutual

_Business 😂

_Business 😳

_Business April fools was two weeks ago

_Business

_Business Taking guidance from government…, can I also get that

_Business Why not ask, no demand a BMW car aswell as designer sun glasses.

_Business Electricity allowance? 🙄 What electricity?

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