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Fin24 reports that the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ordered state-owned arms manufacturer Denel to pay R13.2 million in outstanding salaries to 42 un-unionised current and former employees.
The struggling company has been unable to pay its roughly 2,800 employees their full salaries since May 2020. Unions including Solidarity and Numsa have already secured court orders directing Denel to pay their members their full salaries. In the present instance, a group of employees who were not part of a union won their case in a private court action. On Tuesday, the court ruled that Denel must pay 42 current and former employees between R55,000 and R700,000 within 10 days of the ruling. The employees are owed a combined R13.2 million in unpaid wages for the period between May 2020 and April 2022. The group's legal representative, advocate Michael Matlapeng, said that while his clients were hopeful Denel would "find their senses and pay", they were ready to approach the court to enforce the order. But, it's unclear where the money will come from. Denel had been allocated around R3 billion by the national government to settle ballooning interest payments, but this money cannot be used to pay staff salaries as it has been ring-fenced for debt repayments.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jan Cronje at Fin24
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