The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) financial conference tomorrow (Wednesday) is scheduled to launch a campaign against defaulting employers and service- providers who fail to pay provident fund contributions, union membership fees and other levies to the bargaining councils.
Numsa’s former general secretary and current chief executive of the Financial Sector Charter, Enoch Godongwane will address Numsa social security benefit conference to be held at River Bear Lodge, between Hartebeespoort Dam and Magaliesberg.
Steel and engineering sector and some motor and retail companies’ weekly payments of the provident funds subscriptions, funeral benefits and legislated bargaining council levies is seeping away due to delinquent companies who draw interests from non-payments of these monies after deducting them from employees’ wages.
Some of these companies have defaulted payments after deducting them from workers’ weekly wages since 1998. Others meanwhile were trapped into grave arrears non-payments due to administrative problems or flawed processing collection system of the bargaining councils.
It (the conference) is to sketch out plans to retrieve more than R40 millions from the employers and labour brokers who failed to pay over these monies to the bargaining councils.
The financial conference heralds the government’s social security reform programme which is intended to provide national pension savings scheme for millions of workers. And, the National Welfare Department senior official will also address the conference on provision of state pension benefits to workers.
Cosatu’s benefits coordinator Jan Mahlangu will give the federation’s perspective on social security reform. Medical scheme council director Patrick Matshidze, among others will speak on reforms on health sector.
The Financial Service Board (FSB) is also expected to map out plans to fast-track distribution of more than R19 billion pension surpluses to members in the metal, steel and engineering industry. It (surplus) was accumulated to the industry pension funds over a period of five decades as a result of various industrial council agreements between employers and unions.
For further information contact:
Mziwakhe Hlangani, Numsa national spokesperson
Cell phone: 082 9407116
E-mail : mziwakheh@numsa.org.za
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