Times Of Swaziland: ALSO DEMAND IMPROVED SALARIES FOR COMMUTERS

ALSO DEMAND IMPROVED SALARIES FOR COMMUTERS
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BY SIBUSISO ZWANE on 19/10/2021 08:57:00


MANZINI - The public transport workers are also demanding improved salaries for
commuters, like shopkeepers.
This is contained in the list of demands which the public transport workers
presented to government yesterday. They said some of their customers were
earning peanuts and as a result, they no longer afford to board their vehicles
when going to and from work. They argued that this had negatively affected their
work, especially because most of them had targets to meet.
On another note, they demanded that the rank fees, which they paid to the
associations on a daily basis, be used to their benefit, especially when one had
lost a relative. They alleged that so far, they did not benefit from the money
they paid on a daily basis. Again, they also raised a concern about carrying
capacity for buses.
They argued that following the relaxation of the COVID-19 guidelines, government
said carrying capacity should be 100 per cent for kombis, but for buses,
standing was not allowed. They said this meant that buses did not carry up to
their full carrying capacity as per their certificates of fitness (CFs), which
states, the number of sitting and standing passengers.