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Parliament denies claims it intends retrenching workers

Parliament has dismissed claims by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) that it intends to retrench workers. Parliament says it is merely affording employees who are close to retirement age, an opportunity to take voluntary early retirement. Parliament says the retrenchment claims by the EFF are erroneous and misleading as the institution is currently negotiating with National Treasury to introduce voluntary retirement, which is similar to the one in the public […]

today7 March 2021

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SABC Board suspends Section 189 process for 7 days

The SABC Board says it will suspend the Section 189 process for a period of seven days. The announcement comes after the board met late into the night on Thursday. In a statement, the SABC said that its fully committed to engaging with all parties concerned and will now have further discussions on the way forward. “We are fully committed to meaningfully engage with all of our stakeholders as we […]

today20 November 2020

Local

SABC needs to resume consultation with unions and staff: Bemawu

Union Bemawu says the latest events in the newsroom at the SABC’s headquarters in Johannesburg are evidence that the public broadcaster has failed to follow the proper consultation process for retrenchments. Earlier, SABC News staff took a stand against management during a heated meeting after some staff received redundancy letters. Group Executive of News, Phathiswa Magopeni, then told the meeting that she could not continue issuing letters of redundancy under […]

today18 November 2020

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PnP shareholders should tighten their belts: Cosatu

By Abubaker Abrahams Trade federation Cosatu says it’s worried that the economic recession and “a crisis of profit” is being used by many of these corporate companies to retrench workers and erode workers’ rights. The union was responding to news of supermarket retailer Pick n Pay’s decision to cut 10% of their employees due to low profits and a sluggish economy. This means 3500 employees could lose their jobs through […]

today2 August 2017

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