Tshwane assures residents service delivery won't be impacted by employee overtime cuts
JOHANNESBURG - The City of Tshwane has assured residents that service delivery to critical functions will not be impacted by employee overtime cuts.
Earlier in April, the metro acted on findings by the auditor-general (AG), who found the city in breach of the Labour Relations Act in regularly paying several employees more than 40 hours overtime.
The act stipulates that it should only be limited to 40 hours per month.
City spokesperson Selby Bokaba said that several messages circulating on social media suggesting that prolonged power supply outages because of the city's overtime curb were misleading.
"These messages, which are devoid of any truth, further suggest that the city has taken a decision to compromise service delivery through its changes to the management of overtime.
"The city's resources are also under strain, and this prompted us to make hard choices to the management of overtime, without compromising the delivery of services to the consumers."
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