{"id":8307,"date":"2012-02-25T02:33:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africa-wage-bill-may-burst-budget-frugality\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T02:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:33:37","slug":"s-africa-wage-bill-may-burst-budget-frugality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-wage-bill-may-burst-budget-frugality\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa wage bill may burst budget frugality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Costs mount quickly in state wage bill<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Deficit projections at risk<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ruling ANC wants to avoid an embarrassing strike<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Feb 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The South African<br \/>\ngovernment&#8217;s plan to keep a lid on spending in the budget<br \/>\noutlined this week will face a big test in the coming months<br \/>\nwhen government workers finalise new wage deals.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unions, representing 1.3 million workers, are at<br \/>\nloggerheads with the government. Any deal above the five to six<br \/>\npercent that has been set aside would add billions of dollars to<br \/>\nexpenditures and jeopardise the deficit projection of 4.6<br \/>\npercent of gross domestic product in the 2012\/13 state budget.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unions, which staged a three-week strike in 2010 that<br \/>\nslowed Africa&#8217;s largest economy, are looking for a 10 percent<br \/>\nwage increase and a doubling of the housing allowance to 1,650<br \/>\nrand ($220) a month.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The government has offered a five percent increase and no<br \/>\nmore for housing they said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If nothing changes, we cannot rule out labour conflict,&#8221;<br \/>\nthe spokesman of the NEHAWU, health workers union, Sizwe Pamla,<br \/>\ntold Reuters. Government officials were not immediately<br \/>\navailable for comment.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Costs mount quickly in state wage bill * Deficit projections at risk * Ruling ANC wants to avoid an embarrassing strike By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Feb 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The South African government&#8217;s plan to keep a lid on spending in the budget outlined this week will face a big test in the coming [&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-8307","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\/8307","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=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}