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Fin24 reports that about 200 staff members of state-owned South African Airways (SAA) will be let go at the end of March this year.
Those employees chose not to take voluntary severance packages during SAA's business rescue process and opted insteaf to be placed on a government-run training scheme. Receiving a memorandum from protesting members of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the SA Cabin Crew Association (Sacca) on Tuesday, Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) director-general Kgathatso Tlhakudi said SAA unfortunately found itself in a dire financial situation due to state capture that was "enabled" at the airline. However, according to Numsa and Sacca, ordinary workers had to keep paying the price for corruption and mismanagement at SAA and were now facing an uncertain future. SAA resumed operations on in September 2021 after being the first state-owned enterprise to go into business rescue in December 2019. In terms of SAA's rescue plan, the workforce had to be reduced from about 4,700 to only about 1,000. The majority of employees – 3,041 – ended up opting for severance packages. Meanwhile, the training scheme never really got off the ground. According to Numsa and Sacca, their members were informed by SAA on Monday that the training programme had failed because the CCMA was unable to provide a stipend, the Transport Education Training Authority (TETA) was unable to commence with training, and SAA was not able to use most of those on the programme.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Carin Smith at Fin24
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