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Johannesburg - Relations between government and its public servants are healthy and functional, Public Service Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Monday.
This was partly thanks to institutions like the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC), she told a conference in Midrand.
"Over the last six years interaction at the level of the PSCBC has largely ensured labour peace, and promoted labour relations in the public service," she said.
The conference was arranged to discuss "a decade of social dialogue in the public service".
Fraser-Moleketi said industrial action last year by public servants was a sign of a healthy, and functioning system, in which worker rights were affirmed.
The PSCBC had made great strides since its inception, she said.
A major achievement had been to get rid of discriminatory practices in the conditions of service of public service workers.
This was a mammoth task, given the highly discriminatory system inherited from the previous regime.
The government and labour had, nevertheless, succeeded in achieving equally in its conditions of service, the minister said.