South Africa: Nsfas and Nehawu Sign Wage Agreement to End Strike

press release

A two-week-long strike by National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU) members from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has come to an end, subsequent to both parties having reached and signed wage negotiation agreement on Monday, October 19, 2020.

The two-week long strike started on October 05, 2020 at the NSFAS head offices in Cape Town due to a wage negotiation deadlock between the two parties. Subsequent to weeks of collapsed talks both NSFAS and NEHAWU went back to the negotiation table to work on a wage agreement which will see NSFAS employees who participated in the strike will return to work from Tuesday, October 20, 2020, as per the agreement by both parties.

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