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Update from SASA
This last month has been quite exciting! Here’s what’s been happening within the industry as well as SASA. From the desk of Tony Botes, SASA National Administrator.
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ational Bargaining Council for the Private Security Sector (NBCPSS) The National Bargaining Council has begun the verification process to determine the seat allocation for both Organised Employers and Organised Labour. SASA is pleased to confirm that our current 69 member companies collectively employ very close to 100,000 security officers and support staff: we are growing from strength to strength! We are confident that SASA will continue playing a positive role in the NBCPSS, as we have since its inception, even though it is expected that a third employers organisation will be joining the
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Council. The three organisations will share twelve seats on the board of the Council. The trade unions, more than twenty in total, are also busy submitting their membership numbers and, as per the NBCPSS constitution, will continue to share their twelve seats on the Board. NBCPSS Exemption The private security industry, like the rest of the country, has been experiencing serious challenges with regard to Covid-19: losses or reductions of contracts, unprecedented mass retrenchments and seriously increased costs. Client resistance to the March 2021 statutory increases has also been a major challenge.
SASA and SANSEA (South African National Security Employers’ Association) applied for a partial exemption on the increases that became effective on 1 March 2021. After successful consultations with organised labour, we reached an agreement, which resulted in a positive outcome from the external independent NBCPSS Exemption Appeals Committee: • The Security Officer Premium Allowance increase from R175 to R270 was deferred for 12 months; and • The PSSPF (Private Security Sector Provident Fund) has been requested by organised employers and organised labour to apply for a change in their rules, reducing the employer/employee
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