PETITION AGAINST EXPLOITATION OF SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION

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#3802

Because it is my right to Permanent Position like any other social workers. we were promised permanent employment,,but its been a year we still stuck on NPOs. But the contract stepulated 6months. There still are no changes. i want change.

(Durban, 2019-11-28)

#3803

Am being over worked and feel exploited, too much administration worker other than the reasons why I bacame a social worker.

(JOHANNESBURG, 2019-11-28)

#3804

I feel that the social work profession in South Africa is been exploited and it is now gone too far. There are countless geaduates in this field including myself but there are no opportunities for us. It is now the time that the president listens to us and our concerns.

(Durban, 2019-11-29)

#3805

I signed this because the society needs our skills and expertise on a consistent basis. We are also the same caliber workers as reachers/nurses and the low salaries and abuse of making qualified registered SW again interns is an abomination.

(Port Elizabeth, 2019-11-29)

#3806

I fully agree with all the concerns raised in this petition. I am reluctant to leave my current post for my passion for social work because as a social work student I earn the same if not more than most qualified social workers.

(Springs, 2019-11-29)

#3807

I'm signing in because social work exploitation.

(Johannesburg, 2019-11-29)

#3808

I feel that we Social Auxiliary Workers working in NGO's for 10 years now without any benefits,we are not been taken serious,we do home visits and putting our lives at risk and when we die our kids benefit nothing.And the salary is not even enough that you can even save.We are mistreated by the NGO managers.We not happy at all.

(Ekurhuleni, 2019-11-29)

#3810

I'm place at a Non profit organization earning half of a DSD social worker salary.

(Durban, 2019-11-30)

#3812

I am signing because of a shameful salary, no increment for years, poor working conditions, no bonus, no benefits, high case load etc.

(Durban, 2019-12-01)

#3813

Social Workers are expected to do so much, but is underpaid in comparison with other professions

(Cape Town, 2019-12-01)

#3814

I am signing because I need a job as it has been 7 years completed social auxiliary work qualification but without work opportunity and i can't afford to pay SACSSP every year as am unemployed.

(Phuthaditjhaba, 2019-12-01)

#3815

I am a Social Auxiliary Worker who has practiced in an NPO structure for the past 10 years and the exploitation is on a surroundings not to mention that the Department of Social Development dumped SAWs in NPOs without any protection from exploitation by NPO managers.
Social Auxiliary Workers in NPOs work very hard to bring Psychosocial Support Services to the community but they practice at the expense of their safety and wellbeing, seeing that there is no danger allowance or any other benefits rewarded to them. There is also an issue of going for 3 to 7 months with no pay due to something called 'dry season'.
Neither the Department of Social Development nor the NPOs recognize or even prepares to show respect for the work done by SAWs in different communities, seeing that a recent very sensitive matter regarding an increment for NPO Social Auxiliary Workers was greatly contested by managers, and the people concerned, I.e.; the Social Auxiliary Workers, were never informed of any of the events leading to cutting down of the original 20% raise per person to 10%...
This, amongst other factors make it hard for us to perform at the level of excellence we know we're capable of reaching.

(Johannesburg South, 2019-12-01)

#3820

There are enough opportunities at schools where they are needed

(Port Elizabeth, 2019-12-03)

#3821

I’m under payed

(Johannesburg, 2019-12-04)

#3823

I'm am also a social worker

(Durban, 2019-12-05)

#3824

I am signing in because I work contractual work which is likely to end early next year and may become unemployed again, also considering the fact that I am not above the age of 35 years and likely to succumb to poverty like other unemployed graduates. This could also impoversh my
children.

(Durban, 2019-12-05)

#3828

I am aggrieved by the fact we are so undermined as social workers yet we are expected to do somuch.

(Pietermaritzburg, 2019-12-06)

#3829

I'm signing because I am also concerned about the way our profession is being undermined whereas we advocate in making sure that other people's lives are improved and rehabilitated.

(Kokstad, 2019-12-06)

#3831

I agree fully

(Randfontein, 2019-12-06)

#3832

I am signing this petition due to how our Profession is undermined and the low entrance salary scale given to us

(Johannesburg, 2019-12-06)

#3833

I am a concerned and affected Social worker.

(Pretoria, 2019-12-06)

#3834

We need to be employed

(Johannesburg, 2019-12-06)

#3836

I understand the struggles of poor working conditions and poor salary scales!

(Polokwane, 2019-12-06)

#3837

Social workers need to be recognized with their NQF8 qualifications in terms of remuneration with their other professional counterparts

(Pretoria, 2019-12-06)

#3838

Im signing because I feel my profession is taken for granted, whereas we have studied for four years like other profession. Everyday us as social workers we are solving problems of the country, when there is crisis in the country you call social workers to assist but we are earning penult.

(Johannesburg, 2019-12-06)

#3839

I’m signing because I’m against the explication of social services practitioners,concerning their reward and remuneration,working conditions and other allowances

(Burgersfort, 2019-12-06)

#3843

I'm signing because, I'm a qualified social worker, working as a correctional officer in DCS. I see a real need for social work services and insufficient social workers in service. I rendered professional services since qualifying in 2015, but no posts are being advertised. I am passionate about the profession, but demoralized due to the conditions, salaries as well as the disregard for social workers as professionals.

(Gauteng, 2019-12-06)

#3845

The letter is a true reflection of what is happening on the ground. Lack of resources is a huge problem. Officials even use their own cars to conduct home visits, cellphone and data. The Government and our leaders are not taking this profession serious. It’s very demoralizing.

(Polokwane, 2019-12-07)

#3846

The NQF level of my degree does not correspond to what I'm earning. Eg trauma counselors employed by health earned twice for what I'm getting and the qualifications are at the same level B psychology four years degree and bachelor of social work four years degree. The scope of work is huge as compared to trauma counselors.

(Limpopo, 2019-12-07)

#3857

I'm singing because I'm also affected as a social worker and also support what the scriber said about employed social service professionals and also unemployed. It's very painful and we not getting any support from our government.

(Malamulele township, 2019-12-09)

#3859

I'm signing because social worker's are earning peanuts

(Pietermaritzburg, 2019-12-10)

#3862

Khumalo N.M

(Durban, 2019-12-11)

#3863

I'm signing because I'm a qualified Social Worker and registered completed in 2017, but still unemployed and desperate looking for a job

(Newcastle, South Africa, 2019-12-12)

#3864

I'm concerned about the high rate of unemployed social workers in our country, and the great need for social workers since there are many social ills that needs our attention in this country.

(Durban, 2019-12-12)

#3865

I feel we Social Workers are being exploited by the government but yet have degrees!

(Richards Bay, 2019-12-12)

#3866

I need a permanent position, contract always ends, there was an Ngo that I was working at and there where times were we where not getting paid especially after the few months of the financial year, we don't have any benefits, when the contract ends u live with nothing. The money that I was earning was too little to cover my whole family.

(Bushbuckridge, 2019-12-13)

#3871

I am signning because i believe that the working conditions of social workers should be improved in order to provide a conducive environment. Social workers also deserve to earn a better salary and also more social workers need to be hired in order to relieve the amount of workload expeienced by those social workers who are currently employed. The hiring of more social workers will improve service delivery to our communities.

(groblersdal, 2020-01-17)

#3872

I am signing because I agree with contents of this petition. The strength of the social work profession will lead to the strength of the society, and the inverse is true.

(Bloemfontein, 2020-01-23)

#3877

I feel our profession is seen as a calling

(Barberton, 2020-02-07)

#3878

I have observed that with time the recognition of Social Workers has deliberately been reduced to the role of administration clerk and posts are filled by by qualified bit recognition is lacking.

(Tshwane, 2020-02-27)

#3879

I concur with the sentiments expressed in the petition. I also fell under those that were exploited especially pertaining to salaries.

(Krugersdorp, 2020-03-03)

#3880

I'm signing because I have been affected by this problem too. I have been a social worker without promotion for more than sixteen years. This has demorilised me, having been on salary notch of level 7 for all those years. We have been to tertiary just like other professionals and needed to be treated the same with respect and dignity.

(Rustenburg, 2020-03-09)

#3881

I have graduated as a social worker in 2016 and to date, i am unemployed.

(Cape Town, 2020-05-01)

#3885

Im signing because I am affected.

(Johannesburg, 2020-05-01)

#3887

I need to work with my qualification, we don't even get internship. We are studying this profession for sweet nothing to decorate with only certificates no job.

(Port St Johns, 2020-05-01)

#3888

I'm signing this because its painful to study and got your degree stay with at home, or find some internship job that will pay you 5000 after working hard.

(Cape Town, 2020-05-01)

#3891

I'm signing this because I'm unemployed and it's been 5 years now staying at home after completion of SW degree

(LADY FRERE, 2020-05-01)

#3892

I'm signing because I'm a qualified Social Worker and I've never been employed.

(Polokwane, 2020-05-01)

#3894

I need employment

(Eastern cape, 2020-05-01)

#3895

I'm sick and tired of the Social work profession being neglected. At NGO's our salaries are actually a joke for a four year degree. There are thousands of unemployed social workers, and the list of problems goes on.

(Ladysmith, 2020-05-01)

#3898

I'm tired of our profession being ignored and taken for granted

(Pietermaritzburg, 2020-05-01)

#3902

I am an unemployed graduate

(De Aar, 2020-05-01)

#3903

I am advocating for better treatment of Social Workers at every level of employment even in the private sectors.

(Umtata, 2020-05-01)

#3904

I am signing because enough is enough about the exploitation of our noble profession.

(Hammanskraal, 2020-05-01)

#3905

I am signing because I am unemployed.

(Johannesburg, 2020-05-01)

#3907

Social work professional is undermined and exploited

(Mthatha, 2020-05-01)

#3909

Social workers need to receive crefit fir the job they are doing. Unfairly discrimination between NGO's and DSD salaries. So many social workers need jobs while there is so much work to be done. We work under difficult working conditions in NGO's with the best results without recognition. Our salaries.make us to feel left behind while we need to stand in court to protect our children, we need to advocate for the elderly, our precious women, and the poorest of the poor while we can't afford to look even after our own families.

(Secunda, 2020-05-01)

#3910

Social workers salary very low, they are not considered as professionals. Unemployment graduate rate very high.

(Flamelilly, 2020-05-01)

#3911

I am also a Social worker and are also affected by the above mentioned

(Mount ayliff, 2020-05-01)

#3912

I feel that our profession is not taken serious. We are substituted by SASSA

(POLOKWANE, 2020-05-01)

#3915

I'm signing this petition because this unscrupulous government is not taking our profession serious...

(Sannieshof, 2020-05-01)

#3917

I feel that our profession has lost it respect

(Durban, 2020-05-01)

#3920

I want to practice as a social worker

(Centurion, 2020-05-01)

#3921

I'm signing this petition because I know how badly this profession is doing!

(Tzaneen, 2020-05-01)

#3922

I was trained by department of social development 7 years ago until today's date am unemployed with a degree after being promised employment by the government

(Thohoyandou, 2020-05-01)

#3923

I am signing because I am a qualified social worker who is unemployed.

(R34 Melmoth Road, 2020-05-01)

#3924

I am signing because I am unemployed and I wantfare when it comes to employment of Social workers.

(Empangeni, 2020-05-01)

#3925

I'm unemployed social worker who trained by the department of social development

(Polokwane, 2020-05-01)

#3927

I want to be employed and serve the community.

(Polokwane, 2020-05-01)

#3928

I worked in an Ngo and I know the working conditions. I completed my degree in 2014 till today I never got a permenant social work position

(Polokwane, 2020-05-01)

#3931

I have been unemployed for the past 3 years and nothing positive is said about us, the only thing the government offers us are internships,we need permanent jobs.

(Umzimkhulu, 2020-05-01)

#3934

I want social worker to get better salaries, better resources and for the unemployed Social Worker to be employed. Social worker professional must be respected and given attention by the government

(Giyani, 2020-05-01)

#3935

Our NQF level compared to the entry salary level is shame or should I say insult for a lack of a better degrading word

(Vanderbijlpark, 2020-05-01)

#3938

Im an unemployed social worker

(Pietermaritzburg, 2020-05-01)

#3939

I am signing this petition so that we as Social workers we could be recognized. We provide essential services however the majority of us we unemployed.

(Tshwane, 2020-05-02)

#3941

I am an unemployed social worker who need a permanent job. We are tired of being placed under internships.

(Phalaborwa, 2020-05-02)

#3942

I am against exploitation of social workers whether in private or public sector.

(Mbombela, 2020-05-02)

#3943

I'm signing because all what the petition stated is true and it's happening in South Africa. Government need to review this issues and address it in South African communities

(EMpangeni, 2020-05-02)

#3945

The government sees a need for our services but fails to pay is the money for doing the work..

(Mount ayliff, 2020-05-02)

#3946

Nf nom

(Port Shepstone, 2020-05-02)

#3948

Iam a Social Worker who is unemployed and see no chance for a better since our government looks down on Social Work as a profession. The government is always exploiting Social Workers with internships. Other Departments are employing their graduates and as for Social Development they are only concerned with SASSA. Social workers are drowning from unemployed. Its high time the government starts doing right by Social Workers.

(Jane furse, 2020-05-02)

#3951

I'm signing this petition because I've worked as a volunteer social worker where I didn't even receive money for transportation for more than a year.

I served in a second NPO as a social worker supervising 06 facilitators but earned R6000 for one month & then the salary was decreased to R4000 per month. I won't state the resources or the conditions I was working under but it was bad Mr President.

Now I'm working for an NPO, the funder is the Department of Social Development, I've established an office for the NPO and supervise the Social Auxiliary Worker. We have no car and have to travel by taxi to do community work. We don't even have our own office but share an office with 02 people who don't even work for the NPO and amongst other things I earn R8870 Net salary, (R10 000 Gross salary). The NPO steals about R2000 of my salary but even now nothing has been done by the Department of Social Development even though this has been happening for a year now.

NPOs exploit us, it's like we have no rights, we're just slaves. Please help our profession.

(Durban, 2020-05-02)

#3953

I'm signing because I want President to take Social Work, social auxiliary work, child and youth care workers professions as a priority and bring in positive change and response to our concerns.

(Cape Town, 2020-05-02)

#3955

Am signing this petition because I have heard it with the financial inequality between social workers of NGO sectors and those employed by the Department yet we have the same qualifications and we pretty much deliver the same services. We as NGO social workers have no benefits or whatsoever.

(Hibberdene, 2020-05-02)

#3957

I am doing this job for 20 years, but the salary gets less, the resources gets less, the stress gets more and my family suffers more. I loved my job.

(Standerton, 2020-05-02)

#3958

I a signing this because l am many of the social workers who are unemployed. Social workers need better salary and working conditions.

(Newcastle, 2020-05-02)

#3959

As registered graduate Social Work whom is unemployed since 2018. It is with great sadness to pay the council on a yearly basis, the very same amount with people who are employed and practicing, so I don't become deregistered.

(Ekurhuleni, 2020-05-02)

#3961

I believe in the value the profession provides to society and understandy role as a social worker. I deeply believe there is unjust in the salary of social workers

(Johannesburg Midrand, 2020-05-02)

#3962

I am a social worker and directly affected.

(Cape Town, 2020-05-02)

#3963

It’s a true reflection of what our social workers are facing in reality.

(Paarl, 2020-05-02)

#3965

I'm signing because the social work profession is taken advantage of. Social workers work overtime but are under paid forgetting that it is a four year profession.

(Pietermaritzburg, 2020-05-02)

#3966

Because I support the cause.

(22 Nippon street, Voorbrug, Delft, Cape Town, 7100, 2020-05-02)

#3970

I'm signing this petition because I agree with all that has been mentioned in this petition.

(Bethlehem, Free State, Province, 2020-05-02)

#3971

I am signing this petition because I want the voice of social workers to be heard

(Pretoria, 2020-05-02)

#3973

I'm signing because I'm one of the struggling unemployed social workers who see the need in our communities about the services of social workers

(Mbombela, 2020-05-02)

#3979

I am sifning this petition because I need to be employed. I am a Social Work graduate. We need to be recognised and taken serious.

(Pretoria, 2020-05-02)

#3984

i am an unemployed social worker and i am concerned about the inequality in our society and the harsh treatment from our superiors

(MBOMBELA, 2020-05-02)

#3986

I want better salary

(Johannesburg, 2020-05-02)

#3988

I believe that the salary we get is not fair, more especially for us who are working in the NGOs. Please also consider all unemployed social workers.

(Gauteng, 2020-05-02)

#3990

I'm a social who has five years of experience, and am sharing one computer with ten social workers. I'm carrying 247 children in my case load. I'm earning same salary just like a new social worker that is coming from the university. So I need our profession to be respected and more social workers to be employed. Thank you

(Durban, 2020-05-02)

#3993

I'm signing because we want to be employed and valued as social workers as we have a very scarce skill, we want jobs to feed our families and we want to be prioritized just like other professions. We want to be employed especially because the world needs us more.

(Mthatha, 2020-05-02)

#3994

I'm signing because I'm an unemployed social work who graduated in 2015 and I need a permanent job not contract where I will be earning a salary not stipend (5000)

(Polokwane, 2020-05-02)

#3995

I feel my salary is little compare to my qualification and working conditions am exposed to. Burnout with no support.

(Carletonville, 2020-05-02)

#3997

I'm employed in 2006 since then I'm still at level 7 no upgrading ....today is 2020

(Thohoyandou, 2020-05-02)

#3998

The government exploit fellow social workers. Someone with a basic degree earn so much money and after deductions, still take home a lot of money. Social worker with an Honours degree takes home peanuts. It is not fair therefore, I stand with my fellow social workers since I'm following the same process of becoming one

(Pretoria, 2020-05-03)

#4000

Z.P Makuleni

(Idutywa, 2020-05-03)