{"id":12714,"date":"2012-07-24T13:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T11:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/s-africa-fuel-sector-seals-2-year-wage-deal\/"},"modified":"2012-07-24T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T11:24:44","slug":"s-africa-fuel-sector-seals-2-year-wage-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-fuel-sector-seals-2-year-wage-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa fuel sector seals 2-year wage deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 24<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Workers and employers in<br \/>\nSouth Africa&#8217;s petroleum sector have agreed on a two-year wage<br \/>\ndeal, a labour union said on Tuesday, averting a repeat of last<br \/>\nyear&#8217;s strike that left hundreds of dry pumps across Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nbiggest economy.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Labour union Solidarity said in a statement the deal<br \/>\nincludes an 8 percent pay rise for 2012 and a consumer price<br \/>\nindex (CPI) plus 2 percent increment from April 2013.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Solidarity said the agreement for next year was on condition<br \/>\nthat should CPI drop to below 5 percent, the raise would not be<br \/>\nbelow 7 percent. Should inflation rise above 8 percent then the<br \/>\nwages would be raised by not more than 10 percent, it said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sasol, PetroSA and Engen are some of the biggest<br \/>\nemployers in the sector.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda; editing by David Dolan)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, July 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Workers and employers in South Africa&#8217;s petroleum sector have agreed on a two-year wage deal, a labour union said on Tuesday, averting a repeat of last year&#8217;s strike that left hundreds of dry pumps across Africa&#8217;s biggest economy. Labour union Solidarity said in a statement the deal includes an 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}