Engineering News reports that Denel has been granted yet another time extension to try and achieve compliance with a Labour Court order to pay its workers their full salaries and fulfil all its other contractual obligations towards them in respect of May, June and July last year.
The Court has now given the state-owned defence industrial group a further delay, until 23 July, to come up with a practical programme to comply with the court order of 4 August 2020. The Court also ordered Denel to present it with an affidavit, reporting its progress in complying with the court order, a minimum of ten days before the Court reconvenes to consider the matter. Trade union Uasa responded: “The delay is painful for Uasa members in Denel’s employ who are in dire financial straits due to partial salary payments since last year July. The fact that (the judge) postponed the case again proves that Denel has no solid game plan to remedy the situation with its employees.” According to Uasa, Denel has invited it to a meeting “to discuss the way forward”.
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