Popcru slams Treasury for using ‘bloated wage bill’ as scapegoat

Ngwenya said any pronouncements on the salaries, retirement arrangements and so on were merely hot-air as long as they had not been presented at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council [PSCBS].“Therefore, matters of the additional R57.6bn to pay for the salaries of teachers, nurses and doctors, among many other critical services, must be left to the process that is under way at the PSCBS.“The minister has admitted to the country that the public service wage bill has shrunk and not grown as a portion of the budget, from 35.7% to a projected 31.4%. This begs the…