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EWN and BusinessLive report that on Saturday South African Airways (SAA) assured passengers that flights were operating on schedule, a day after employees agreed to return to work following a crippling wage strike.
In terms of an agreement signed on Friday, employees will get a 5.9% wage increase deferred to February 2020. In the original offer made on the eve of the strike, SAA had proposed that the 5.9% wage increase be deferred to April 2020. However, the wage offer and the back pay, which will date back to 1 April 2019, is “subject to the availability of funding” being obtained for this purpose from SAA. The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the SA Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) won a small concession by persuading SAA to implement the wage increase two months earlier. Unions also extracted a concession on impending retrenchments, which for non-management employees will now be postponed to January 2020. The retrenchment of management employees will go ahead now. The agreement also establishes a joint task team that will “identify and consider cost saving initiatives” including the insourcing of contracts. Should the task-team be able to realise savings, a percentage of the after-tax savings may be ring-fenced and paid to employees in the bargaining unit.
- Based on reports at EWN and BusinessLive
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