Court halts SAA retrenchments as unions score big win

The National Union of Metalworkers of SA and the SA Cabin Crew Association , which together represent about 60% of the 4,700 employees at SAA, had taken the airline’s business rescue practitioners, Leslie Matuson and Siviwe Dongwana, to court in a bid to stop a retrenchment process involving the entire staff complement.

In his summary, Van Niekerk said the “crisp issue” was whether Section 136b of the Companies Act permitted a business rescue practitioner to retrench employees “only as part of a business rescue plan and on presentation of that plan or whether a retrenchment process may be initiated in the absence of a business rescue plan”.

Unions are also to blame for this mess. Sure, Dude Miyeni and Jacob Zuma are ultimately responsible but these unions facilitated this.

I think this is good. SAA should be treated like any other company in SA, and be subject to, and enjoy protection from, the same legislative and economic laws as other private companies. I assume all the staff will be getting UIF like everyone else. Everyone is hurting.

Didn’t Gordhan day he is working with Unions and that all is well What happened to SA?

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