Cosatu blasts CCMA for backlog and budget cuts
Cosatu has slammed the CCMA for it’s budget cuts and growing backlog, making it unable to process cases, ultimately failing workers.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says it is disappointed in the decision of the Treasury to cut the budget of the CCMA with R600 million over the next three years, saying this will have a devastating impact on the working-class.
The union’s provincial secretary Malvern De Bruyn said the CCMA has a massive backlog and with this draconian budget cuts the CCMA will not be able to cope in dealing with all the cases.
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THE DECISION WILL IMPACT THE WORKING CLASS
De Bruyn said the budget cut will have a devastating impact on the working class.
“We are disturbed and highly disappointed in the decision of the Treasury to cut the budget of the CCMA with R600 million over the next three years.
That unilateral decision is a vicious attack on the working class and the poorest of the poor, and we call on the President of this country to step in and show leadership.
What we have seen is an increase of the caseload of the CCMA, with fewer Commissioners. We were also informed that part time Commissioners services have been temporarily suspended and that no cases were scheduled for December 2020,” he said.
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COSATU APPEALS TO THE GOVERNMENT TO INTERVENE
“We are calling on President Ramaphosa to urgently intervene by directing Treasury to review their current decision, because the R600 million budget cut has a massive impact on the CCMA and its capacity to help workers, more so when there is an increasing demand upon its services as millions of workers has lost their jobs and wages.
Cosatu will be monitoring this situation very closely and will also engage and consult alliance partners, civil society, religious fraternity and the public at large to discuss possible action against the Treasury to force them to reverse their decision.
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We once again call on the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to investigate this matter, because we are of the view that the rights of the working class and the poorest of the have been infringed,” he said.