Finance Minister Tito Mboweni told Parliament there had been discussions with organised labour about his plans to trim the public sector wage bill, and that stakeholders should thus not feign surprise. BudgetSpeech2020
Parliament - Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Thursday said there had been discussions with organised labour about his plans to trim the public sector wage bill, and that stakeholders should thus not feign surprise.
The minister described the talks as "multi-pronged" and said those involved included the governing ANC, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of Trade Unions of South Africa . "So this is not a surprise to anybody who is involved in the process, but naturally people are going to say [different] things publicly. But I have been involved in talks with the trade union movement, I know how these things start and I know how they end. Mboweni, who served as labour minister under Nelson Mandela, was interacting with MPs a day after he tabled his 2020 budget that announced cuts of R160.
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