Parking attendants demand a basic salary

Kungwini Amalgamated Workers Union general secretary, Khumbulani Moyo said workers, who went on strike last week, planned to intensify their strike action by marching to the head office of ACE Parking Services on 17 July to handover a memorandum.

According to Moyo, workers, who currently earned on a commission basis and were not registered with the labour department, downed tools demanding a basic salary.

“We have proposed a basic salary of R5 000 per month and a 30 percent commission on monies made per month,” he said. “Secondly, that workers must be registered to the provident fund and the introduction of a permanent contract of employment rather than the monthly contract, which workers were on.”

Further, he said, the money deducted from the attendants’ commission since January to date to recoup lost income must be reimbursed.

“Sometimes cars are parked for hours and the owners refuse to pay, and the employer calculates those costs and then deducts them from the attendant’s commission, which is undermining their basic rules of employment.”

Moyo said the attendants were currently being paid a 15 percent commission, and although their earnings varied they sometimes earned as little as between R140 and R150 per month.

The union decided to go on strike following failed talks with ACE Parking Services, which began in January this year, Moyo said.

The union had even approached the City of Joburg to intervene but its efforts failed, he said.

There was no indication as to when employees would return to work, he added.

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