Judge Dennis Davis asked whether the court should even be hearing the matter considering that a business rescue plan was now in place
The labour appeal court has reserved judgment after hearing arguments on behalf of SAA's business rescue practitioners and unions on whether employees can beIn April, after being informed by public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan that the government had no more money available to restructure the airline, practitionersThe notices were set aside by judge Andre van Niekerk after an application by the National Union of Metalworkers of SA and SA Cabin Crew Association .
He argued that the retrenchment process that would now commence since the plan was tabled, was no different to the one that had started before. The practitioners were arguing that nothing stopped them from doing two sets of retrenchments, or doing them in stages depending on the circumstances, and that there couldn't be just “one shot” at retrenchments.
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