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TimesLIVE reports that a trade union at SAA Technical (SAAT) is up in arms over a near R1m bonus paid to a departing divisional chief executive officer.
Adam Voss, the CEO of the embattled state-owned airline maintenance and repair business, was paid the bonus on the eve of his departure from the company. SAAT is one of the SA Airways (SAA) divisions that have all but collapsed due to years of maladministration and corruption. Voss, who was said to have been working from home in Australia during the national Covid-19 lockdown, resigned on Monday. Meantime, engineers and other staff at SAA were recently made to take 75% pay cuts as a result of the shutdown of air travel across the globe. The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), which is the majority union at SAAT, has sent a hard-hitting letter to the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), criticising the decision to award Voss a bonus. Numsa’s Irvin Jim demanded that the decision on the staff pay cut, which led to pickets in October, be reversed and that workers be paid back the money deducted. "What makes us not consider any kind of compromise is that the very same CEO, Adam Voss, who took the decision to cut workers' wages by 75%, in October 2020 paid himself a bonus of R836,962," the letter states. Jim said they intended to strike if the DPE did not respond.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sabelo Skiti at TimesLIVE
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