Business Report writes that on Friday the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) slammed what it alleged were “shocking abuses” being imposed upon the 14,000 hard-working SA Post Office (Sapo) employees.

It pointed out the pending retrenchments of 6,000 postal workers came on the back of management failing to pay workers their back pay and denying them access to their medical aid services by failing to transfer their contributions to their scheme despite deducting them. In December, the Business Rescue Plan to restructure financially troubled Sapo was approved and will see the reduction of the branch network to about 600 branches that will be staffed by about 5,000 employees. Sapo was placed under business rescue in July. Cosatu said in its statement on Friday: “Forcing workers to take devastating 40% salary cuts while the management oversees the staggering mismanagement and systematic destruction of the once well-respected Post Office is nothing short of scandalous.” Cosatu called on the government to work with the union to find an amicable solution and take seriously the issues that were raised with regards to the employees’ working conditions.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Philippa Larkin at Business Report

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