SA Post Office workers have been informed that the struggling entity will start with large-scale retrenchments, unions say. | News24_Business
Unions say the SA Post Office has announced internally that it plans to begin consultations on section 189 retrenchments.The Communications Workers Union saidfailed to implement its voluntary severance package process because it could not afford to pay the packages. SA Post Office workers have been informed that the struggling entity will start with large-scale retrenchments, unions say.
According to Communication Workers Union general secretary Aubrey Tshabalala, SAPO said it would start consulting unions on section 189 retrenchments this week. Section 189 of the Labour Relations Act allows an employer considering large-scale dismissals to undergo a consultative process to determine whether such dismissals are deemed necessary to keep its operations going.An internal CWU notice, which News24 has seen, said the union's leaders met to assess its readiness of a"fight back campaign" and study the response of the ballot voting for a possible strike.
"We call on the government to intervene to halt the planned retrenchments at SAPO with immediate effect. The role of SAPO needs to be reconsidered and with its infrastructure, it can be used to provide more that the services that it currently delivers," the statement said.
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