Wage agreement would plunge state into R37.8bn in debt

Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu and Treasury director-general Dondo Mogajane have reiterated that implementing a wage increase clause in the collective Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) agreement of 2018 would not be financially feasible, as the cost of enforcing it would see the fiscus plunged into R37.8 billion worth of debt.

In their responding affidavits to a labour court case filed by the Public Servants Association (PSA),