‘I have been victimised’: More than R4k ‘deducted’ from Gauteng EMS workers who refused unpaid overtime
“Twelve hours per day if the employees perform shift work” A 2019 circular we also saw allows a written agreement to permit 12-hour days without overtime pay.
Gauteng Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers at the Hillbrow, Selby, and Mofolo bases allege R4 300 was taken from their pay after they refused to work beyond 160 hours a month without overtime pay.
The department’s overtime policy, which took effect in September 2024, sets the limit at 160 hours a month.
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