THE National Union of Mineworkers SA (Numsa) has welcomed a decision taken by Putco to stop the retrenchment of more than 200 employees, as initially announced last month.
Putco, a service which operates in Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo and has a fleet of 1 400 buses transporting more than 210 000 passengers daily, was planning to issue Section 189 notices to 214 employees.
“We met with the management yesterday where the managing director confirmed that it will not proceed with plans to retrench 214 employees. Furthermore, they confirmed that Job Rotation will stop on the 15th of March 2021if all issues around scheduling of staff are finalised,” said NUMSA general secretary, Irvin Jim.
“As NUMSA we have been vindicated. This is a victory for workers and their families’! We made submissions during the section 189-A consultation to oppose retrenchments, because we felt the job cuts were unnecessary. There is ample evidence
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