Kaya 959 Reporter
Census field workers in the Free State are angry and have vowed to boycott working until they get paid.
The staff in Botshabelo in the Free State say they haven’t been paid since they started working in February.
They have blamed the Census management for being dishonest after being promised payment several times to date.
They started boycotting their work on Saturday and have handed over a memorandum of their grievances to management.
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Head of Stats SA Free State, Boniswa Jonas spoke to the SABC to explain why they were not paid:
“With regards to field workers of Botshabelo and Thaba Nchu, we had some challenges. The challenge was that, for some reason the whole DCC unit was not paid.”
“We explained to them way before the payment date but then seemingly they did not want to accept that we had some challenges.”
“Then during our engagements, we told them that their payment is being processed as such they are going to get their payment as of 18th of March.” says Jonas.
Census 2022 field workers will be going door to door until March 20, 2020.
The workers have said that they will only return to work once they have been fully compensated for their work.
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