Over weekends municipal workers are hard at work and this is costing an arm and a leg.
Heads are going to roll in the next council meeting on June 29 when questions will be asked about overtime expenditure.
Over R8.5m was spent on overtime in January.
February looked slightly better with just over R8m paid for overtime.
Emalahleni Local Municipality coughed up R6m for standby allowances in February. This is a decrease of over R1.2m from the previous month’s R7.4m
It is a known fact that Emalahleni is in deep trouble with Eskom and a financial recovery plan was adopted to try and get out of the mess.
Part of the plan outlines the strategies the municipality must do to reduce overtime.
“Encourage staff to take time off to make up for overtime worked. Planned overtime must be submitted to management for consideration every month and unplanned overtime must be motivated and approved by management,” is a part of the item under which the overtime is discussed.
“The issue of overtime is governed by a collective agreement, especially for technical services where it happens most. For now, it may be premature to comment because the collective agreement details on standby and overtime will be submitted to the council in June. ,” the municipal manager Mr Sizwe Mayisela said.
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