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ANA reports that SA Airways (SAA) will be continuing to operate repatriation and cargo flights for the rest of this month and beyond after the Labour Court on Friday ruled in favour of organised labour against planned retrenchments at the state-owned carrier.
The court affirmed that the business rescue practitioners (BRPs) could not retrench workers without producing a business rescue plan, thereby scuppering their plans to lay off the airline’s 4,700 workers. The BRPs’ plan came after they failed to secure a R10 billion government bailout. The judge ruled that the conduct of SAA and the BRPs in issuing Section 189 (retrenchment) notices to labour unions had been procedurally unfair and that they should be withdrawn. The judge said nothing in the order precluding the BRPs from offering, or any employee from accepting, any offer of voluntary retrenchment. SAA on Friday defied its rescuers, saying it had no plans to cease its operations. The carrier said there were several requests for repatriation flights during the course of this month that were being considered. Interim SAA executive chairperson Thandeka Mgoduso said the airline would honour all existing commitments to provide air transportation services to its customers and any other requests that it received.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Siphelele Dludla on page 9 of Business Report of 11 May 2020
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