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EWN reports that while thousands of workers have returned to their posts at Sibanye-Stillwater’s gold operations, production is expected to take a while to pick up.
A payless stay away of almost five months was called off last week after the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) signed a wage agreement with Sibanye, settling essentially on the same terms as the deal signed by three other unions in November. Head of stakeholder relations at Sibanye-Stillwater, Thabisile Phumo, said that the miners were offered transport to bring them back to work in the Free State and Gauteng, but because of Easter weekend delays, that had not taken place. But, Phumo indicated that even after returning, the miners would be put to work immediately. “The employees who were on strike will undergo retraining as well as medical fitness tests to ensure that when they go underground they are ready to resume their normal duties,” she indicated, adding that the results of those tests might affect the number of workers who would resume their duties.
- Read the original of Kgomotso Modise’s report on the above at EWN
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