FAT
CATS IN TRAINING
According to South Africa labour
law, any worker can only work a maximum of 10 hours
overtime per week.
That’s 40 hour per month, or 43.33 hours per
month if you really want to get technical.
In order to earn R47 988.95 in overtime
for the month, one would then need to earn R1107.52
per hour.
So who earns that kind of money?
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Why, municipal workers and
security staffers in the Msunduzi Municipality of course.
That’s Pietermarizburg, in case, like me, you didn’t
know.
For the months of July and August, one
of deputy mayor Mervyn Dirk’s – is he related
to Najwa? – bodyguard pocketed R93 567.44 in overtime.
This excludes his basic pay.
And, he is not alone.
36 security staffers in the municipality are earning close
to that every month.
One
security officer in training, who earns a basic
salary of R10 245.55, pocketed R52 270.55 for the
month!
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Even refuse collectors are coining it.
One managed to pocket R16 042.95 in overtime for September,
a major boost to his basic monthly salary of R5 328.12.
He grossed a tidy R21 371.07 for that month.
By last month, barely three months into
the financial year, the municipality had already spent
R25m of its R33.5m overtime budget.
That does not mean that the overtime party will come to
an end though.
At the end of the 2008/09 financial year,
The Witness reported that the municipality managed to
exceed its R43.4m overtime budget by a whopping R22.5m.
The taxpayer of course, is footing the
bill.
Kader Khan
Editor
info@yummie.co.za
