BusinessLive reports that trade unions representing employees at SA Airways (SAA) are expecting to meet the Department of Public Enterprises and Minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday on the future of the state-owned airline.  

After refusing to meet with SAA’s business rescue practitioners (BRPs) on Monday, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the SA Cabin Crew Association (Saaca), will apparently be part of the labour delegation.  The meeting is meant to discuss how to avoid the liquidation of SAA; the effect of the business rescue restructuring; and funding.  This will follow a meeting between some of the unions and the BRPs on Monday after practitioners Les Matuson and Siviwe Dongwana had sent them a draft proposal on the structured winding down of the airline.  The draft proposal, sent to all unions on Friday, set out the process for the termination of all employee contracts at the end of April, with severance packages only to be provided if funds existed at the end of the winding down of the company.  Unions have until Tuesday to submit their own proposal to the BRPs.  The airline, which was placed in business rescue in December, is insolvent.  The government last week informed the BRPs that it was unable to provide the airline with further funding.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Genevieve Quintal at BusinessLive

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