VANDERBIJLPARK. – The Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM) acknowledged that an administrative error caused employees of the Emfuleni Department of Fire and Rescue employees to not receive their total salaries last week. (Sedibeng Ster, April 26: Barricade over short salaries at ELM).
Some employees received a quarter of their total salaries on April 25 while others were said to have received nothing at all. ELM spokesperson Stanley Gaba said the municipality had apologised for the error.
The Finance MMC Councillor Robert Thema and his Chief of Finance, Brendan Scholtz, were publicly insulted by the angry workers.
The two officials had to be accompanied by guards to safety.
The workers said they woke up in the morning with their bank lacking their monthly salaries.
They then blocked the main entrance to the municipality with fire trucks cutting their much needed and essential service to the public .
“We work hard for our money. You can do what you like, but don’t play with our salaries,” they shouted.
The office of the Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, assigned an official known only as Gcaiyane, to attend to the matter and come up with a solution.
However, a long meeting apparently failed to bear good results.
Gaba said, “ The matter has been resolved. The next day workers received their salaries and returned to work.”
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