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The Citizen reports that AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) and trade unions are busy concretising a possible arrangement that would help avert the retrenchment of more than 800 employees.
AGA spokesperson Chris Nthite said they met with unions – the NUM, Amcu, Solidarity and Uasa – but had not yet finalised the talks or reached agreement on substantive issues. The company recently announce a plan to retrench 849 workers, but the parties agreed to seek ways to prevent the retrenchments completely. “On Monday we met with the organised labour representatives of our employees to explore steps to mitigate job losses. This engagement is ongoing and it remains too early to pre-empt an outcome,” Nthite indicated. He added that various options were being considered in order to mitigate the job losses and that they were going to meet as stakeholders again soon for more discussions on these issues.
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