Business Report writes that the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on Friday said it was working with stakeholders to find solutions for national carrier SA Airways (SAA)  This came after agitated employees who have not been paid in eight months demanded their salaries.  

The department said that it was sympathetic to the worker’s plight and called on them to be patient adding the government believed the key to solving the difficulties facing the beleaguered national carrier was the finalisation of the business rescue plan.  Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the SA Cabin Crew Association (Saccca) picketed outside SAA’s Kempton Park head office on Thursday to demand payment of outstanding salaries.  Numsa and Sacca also opened a criminal case against the carrier’s board and executives due to their failure to execute their fiduciary duties and for allowing corruption to mushroom through white collar crimes at the group.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Dineo Faku at Business Report
• Read too, Government urges SAA employees to be patient while it resolves unpaid salaries, at Engineering News

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