While BMC employees on COVID-19 duty are getting paid R300 extra per day, sanitation and multipurpose employees on contracts are still waiting for their April salary. The workers, who had also requested for accommodation facilities, haven't been granted those yet. A workers' union has now threatened to stop work if the issue is not resolved till Wednesday.

The civic-run King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital has around 110 daily wagers working for it (since 2011) and 250 multipurpose workers (since 2014) who are now on COVID duties.