LABOUR
The National Employers’ Association of South Africa (Neasa) would on Tuesday return to the Labour Court, in Johannesburg, to argue its case as to why the Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council (MEIBC) should be prevented from requesting Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant to extend the wage settlement agreed to between the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) and trade unions, in July, to nonparties. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and five other unions had accepted Seifsa’s offer of a 10% wage increase for the lowest grades for three years; however, Neasa had not signed the agreement, arguing that the increase was at an “unsustainable level” and would cause the metals and engineering industry to decline even further.
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