Fin24 reports that the Democratised Transport Logistics and Allied Workers Union (Detawu) wants answers from the new, as yet unnamed, owners of long haul passenger bus service Greyhound about hundreds of job losses.

This as the business returns to operation just over a year after shutting down. The closure of Greyhound last year, owing to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the national lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the virus, resulted in the loss of 700 jobs. Greyhound announced that it would be back in operation this Wednesday. The return comes just in time for the Easter weekend and an expected further relaxation of the Covid-19 national lockdown regulations, as the National State of Disaster is expected to lapse in mid-May. However, Detawu secretary-general Vusi Ntshangase was not impressed, saying in a statement that employees of the bus service who lost their jobs were told by then-Greyhound owner KAP Industries that the business could not bounce back from the lockdown. "Some 700 jobs were lost when the business shut down last year. Now the new owners say they will be employing 200 people. However, there is no attempt to absorb the workers who lost their jobs during the shutdown. Those workers will remain unemployed as the company they gave years of their lives to takes to the road once again," Ntshangase observed. He said Detawu planned on following up on its Labour Court challenge against the dismissal of workers last year "on both a substantive and procedural basis". He advised that this matter was still pending.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Khulekani Magubane at Fin24

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