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DENOSA Gauteng calls on nurses not to wear uniform from today until Department pays Uniform Allowance
Media statement
17 August 2018
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) in Gauteng condemns the Gauteng Department of Health’s unwillingness to pay nurses their uniform allowance despite the Department of Public Service and Administrations issuing a directive for it to pay uniform allowance to nurses. The matter of uniform allowance is a concluded collective bargaining matter and doesn’t need to be negotiated but implemented.
DENOSA has made many attempts to get this allowance paid without any cooperation from the Gauteng Health Department. We then referred the matter to the chamber which is a collective bargaining platform to compel Gauteng Health to give us a date to pay this, but again the employer came without any mandate to pay, this is despite also interventions from DENOSA to make the HOD of the department aware of the matter and asking him to solve it.
These actions by the department of health are attempts to undermine collective bargaining and we will never allow that to happen. DENOSA Gauteng therefore calls on all nurses in Gauteng to stop wearing uniform until the employer pays uniform to all nurses in the province.
DENOSA also calls on government to conclude on the matter of uniform and start providing nurses with uniform just like they provide other public servants with uniform like the police, soldiers etc. It is our view that this small amount allocated for uniform doesn’t even cover all the needs of nurses as far as uniform is concerned.
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Issued by DENOSA in Gauteng
For more information contact:
Simphiwe Gada, DENOSA Gauteng Provincial Chairperson
Mobile: 072 563 1923
