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Moneyweb reports that the Airline Pilots’ Association SA (Alpa-SA) has launched an urgent process to interdict the SA Airways (SAA) business rescue practitioners (BRPs) from continuing with a lockout of its members.
Alpa-SA is the parent body of the SAA Pilots Association (Saapa), which represents 96% of the pilots employed by SAA. At the heart of the impasse is the three-decade long Regulatory Agreement (RA) between Saapa members and the airline, which the BRPs want terminated. On Wednesday last week, they issued a 48-hour lockout notice to Saapa, preventing the association’s members from accessing the company’s premises until they agreed to new employment terms and conditions. Saapa members will not be entitled to any remuneration or benefits from the airline for the duration of the lockout. The BRPs have instituted separate court proceedings to have the RA set aside, citing the onerous burden that the agreement puts on the airline’s precarious finances. But, Saapa says it has agreed to terminate the RA and has placed alternative employment terms and conditions on the table. Alpa-SA and Saapa want the Labour Court to declare the lockout unlawful and unprotected. The pilots, like other SAA employees, have not been paid since March. Even those who have signed voluntary severance packages, which includes 224 pilots, have yet to be paid.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Thando Maeko at Moneyweb
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