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Engineering News reports that state-owned defence industrial group Denel confirmed on Tuesday that it would be paying its staff only 85% of their salaries for this month.
“Due to ongoing liquidity challenges we are now faced with unfortunate reality that the company is not in a position to fulfil the 100% salary obligation,” Denel Group CEO Danie du Toit indicated in a statement. Trade union Solidarity also issued a statement on Tuesday, in reaction to the news from Denel. It said that it had learnt of the news “with shock”. The union pointed out that, in December last year, Denel had committed itself to informing its employees by the 15th of each month whether or not it would be able to pay their salaries for that month. “We are concerned that this tendency has now started again because there was an expectation that the non-payment of salaries was something of the past,” Solidarity’s Johan Botha said. Given that the state of the economy was currently “challenging”, he asserted that the situation was “very traumatic” for Denel staff, as they did not know if they would get paid in July.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard at Engineering News
- Read Denel’s press statement at Polity
Read Solidarity’s press statement at Polity
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