Cosatu applauds the tabling of the Insourcing Bill at Parliament. The Federation eagerly looks forward to its passage into law and implementation by organs across the state.
This progressive and, indeed, long overdue Bill requires state organs to insource security, cleaning, gardening, catering, transport, administrative, healthcare, maintenance, information technology, auditing amongst other functions and, where this is not possible, to seek authorisation for such an exemption under specific conditions and criteria.
State organs clearly specified by the Bill include national and provincial departments, municipalities, entities and State-Owned Enterprises.
This bold and timely Bill speaks to Cosatu’s principled demand to insource key functions performed by various state organs. It responds to long-standing resolutions of the Federation and the ANC and the Tripartite Alliance.
The call to insource has been…
