Unions slam ‘absurd’ SAA retrenchment proposal

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Numsa and Sacca take the issue to the labour court in attempt to halt layoffs

A man cycles past aircraft in the SAA fleet parked at OR Tambo International Airport. Picture: GETTY IMAGES

The unions want the court to grant an order declaring the retrenchment process the joint business rescue practitioners Les Matuson and Siviwe Dongwana have embarked on as “unlawful or procedurally unfair”. A training lay-off scheme is a temporary suspension of work of a worker or group of workers that is used for training purposes. Employees don’t get a salary during the training period but receive a training allowance amounting to 75% of their salaries while in the programme.

Ngcukaitobi also criticised the practitioners for not having produced a business rescue plan, saying that “for all we know” retrenchments could be avoided if the compact agreed with public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan aimed at preserving SAA’s business in some form or the other is given effect.

He would not allow a firesale of SAA assets or any move towards liquidation, adding that on Tuesday he had been given what he would describe as “an outline” rather than a business rescue plan, which focused on the past and said little about the airline’s future.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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