Gov�t Give Trade Unions Notice To Take Away Deduction Code

The trade Unions last year managed to frustrate the Government’s attempt to take away the rights to deduction codes from the trade Unions after their urgent court applications were successful.

Government had gone ahead and advertised for interests to manage its newly created central registry. However, there is talk that someone highly connected to Vice President Mokgweetsi Masisi had long positioned himself for the job. This was after one of the affected trade Unions, BOPEU, revealed in their supporting court papers that they had been approached by the entrepreneur to partner them in managing the business, long before the tender was published. Now the Unions have reported that recently when they were expecting to start the mediation process over the issue of the deduction codes and central; registry as the court had ordered, they were slapped with a memo notifying them that Government would in six months time take back the deduction codes right because of rampant abuse of the tool by the trade Unions