BusinessLive reports that a new business model at RCL Foods’ Rainbow Chicken plant in Hammarsdale will come into effect on Wednesday in terms of which the facility will reduce the two-shift system to a single one.  

This will result in the loss of 1,350 workers out of a staff complement of about 2,700.  Most of the retrenched workers were laid off on Friday and some will knock off for the last time on Tuesday afternoon.  More than 200 workers have been placed at RCL Foods’ other operations in the province.  RCL Foods has committed itself to helping its former workers by paying for their reskilling courses and would engage some on a casual basis.  They would also be assisted in accessing unemployment insurance funds.  Meanwhile, thousands of workers and their poultry industry bosses are set to march in Pretoria on Wednesday to protest against what they say is dumping of cheap chicken products in the local market.

• Read this report by Nce Mkhize in full at BusinessLive
• Read too, Poultry industry to mark ‘day of misery’ with protest march against EU imports, at Engineering News

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