UJ and workers ink insourcing deal
- Published on 9 Nov 2015
- HR Pulse News Desk
ANA reports that the University of Johannesburg (UJ), Nehawu and other workers’ representatives on Sunday signed an agreement on the insourcing of outsourced services and the transfer of workers to the university.
University management, Nehawu (National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union) and other representatives of outsourced workers at the university met on Sunday and, having been briefed on the university’s intention to end all outsourcing arrangements at the earliest opportunity,
agreed on a number of points. In terms of the memorandum of agreement, outsourced cleaning, protection, and gardening services would be insourced according to an agreed insourcing plan, and workers currently performing these services would be transferred through an agreed process to the university. Parties would participate constructively in the university’s insourcing task team. The work of the task team would be speeded up and completed by no later than the end of February next year. Outsourced services workers’ would return to work on Tuesday, subject to workers not participating in protest activity.
Source: SA Labour News
