Wage bill lurks as budget timebomb

Public sector wage negotiations almost certainly will be higher than what the budget has catered for

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TICKLING A NERVE


Ioften wonder why, in their assumptions, corporates or the government underestimate wage increases in their budgets. In the case of the recent five-month strike in the mining sector, unions pointed out that if they were involved in the budget process,...

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