{"id":382833,"date":"2020-03-18T16:31:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=382833"},"modified":"2020-03-18T16:31:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:31:53","slug":"government-to-scrap-increase-for-public-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/382833\/government-to-scrap-increase-for-public-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to scrap increase for public sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s government has told its workers it will unilaterally implement a budget proposal that they forgo an already agreed wage increase at the beginning of April, the biggest labour federation said.<\/p>\n<p>The federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said it\u2019s examining legal options and may take other steps, said Sizwe Pamla, the group\u2019s spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Vukani Mbhele, spokesman for Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu, didn\u2019t answer two calls seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>The development was reported earlier by Eyewitness News.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/382663\/south-africas-government-says-these-jobs-are-most-at-risk-of-coronavirus-exposure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa\u2019s government says these jobs are most at risk of coronavirus exposure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s government has told its workers it will unilaterally implement a budget proposal that they forgo an already agreed wage increase at the beginning of April, the biggest labour federation said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":336535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-382833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382835,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382833\/revisions\/382835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}