BusinessLive reports that two trade unions at SA Airways (SAA) won a crucial victory in the labour court on Friday when Judge André van Niekerk set aside the retrenchment notices issued to employees by the business rescue practitioners (BRPs).  

This ruling further complicates the struggle over the future of SAA.  The BRPs are attempting to wind down the company, which would include retrenchment of all employees.  Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan is opposed to the wind-down and wants to form a new airline out of the ashes of SAA.  Van Niekerk said that the issuing of notices of retrenchment had been “procedurally unfair” and ruled that the notices be withdrawn.  The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the SA Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) had argued that it was unfair for the BRPs to retrench employees before a business rescue plan had been presented.

• Read the original of the report in the above regard by Carol Paton at BusinessLive
• Read too, SAA business rescue practitioners level blame at Pravin Gordhan, at Business Report
• And also, Gordhan wants answers about how R5.5bn was spent by SAA BRPs, at Moneyweb

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