[South Africa] Gauteng Health addressing unpaid salaries

In South Africa, the Gauteng Department of Health has announced that it is actively addressing the issue of unpaid salaries, which continues to affect healthcare workers at public hospitals in the province, SABC News reports.

The update follows reports that doctors at facilities, including Chris Hani Baragwanath, Charlotte Maxeke, and Dr George Mukhari hospitals, haven't been paid for months.

The Department reportedly attributes the issue, in part, to a verification process intended to identify legitimate employees on the payroll. 

It claims that some staff members at Chris Hani Baragwanath failed to comply with the process, resulting in the freezing of their salaries.

Department spokesperson Motalatale Modiba said, “We said we’re going to be verifying all our 85,642 employees who are currently on the department’s payroll as part of a campaign to ensure that we can account for each and every person who is on that payroll.”

“And we said that failure to participate in that process would have other consequences, and those consequences, some of them would be freezing of those salaries. At the end of April, there were about 188 employees whose salaries were frozen because they had not come forth to verify themselves.”

Source: SABC News

(Quote via original reporting)

In South Africa, the Gauteng Department of Health has announced that it is actively addressing the issue of unpaid salaries, which continues to affect healthcare workers at public hospitals in the province, SABC News reports.

The update follows reports that doctors at facilities, including Chris Hani Baragwanath, Charlotte Maxeke, and Dr George Mukhari hospitals, haven't been paid for months.

The Department reportedly attributes the issue, in part, to a verification process intended to identify legitimate employees on the payroll. 

It claims that some staff members at Chris Hani Baragwanath failed to comply with the process, resulting in the freezing of their salaries.

Department spokesperson Motalatale Modiba said, “We said we’re going to be verifying all our 85,642 employees who are currently on the department’s payroll as part of a campaign to ensure that we can account for each and every person who is on that payroll.”

“And we said that failure to participate in that process would have other consequences, and those consequences, some of them would be freezing of those salaries. At the end of April, there were about 188 employees whose salaries were frozen because they had not come forth to verify themselves.”

Source: SABC News

(Quote via original reporting)