Gold producers table final three-year wage offers

Gold producers AngloGold Ashanti, Evander Gold Mines, Harmony Gold and Sibanye Gold have tabled their final three-year offers for wage and benefit increases to representative unions, the Association of Mining and Construction Union (AMCU), the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Solidarity and UASA for the period July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2018. The companies guaranteed that the pay of entry-level employees would reach R12 800 a month and R13 200 a month in the third year of the agreement.