Airchefs Staff Finally Receive Salaries After More Than A Year Without Pay – NUMSA

NUMSA has confirmed on Wednesday that employees of Airchefs finally got paid their salaries, after the company completed its internal audit.

Workers at SA Airways (SAA) subsidiary company, Airchefs, have been without pay since March last year.

The union said for 16 months’, employees at Airchefs – which provides in-flight catering services to airlines – had not been paid their salaries in full due to the lockdown, and the fact that the company was not operational.

Airchefs workers have been depending on the Temporary Employee Relief scheme (Ters) since then and received a Ters payment was for October.

It is reported that the culinary company has been struggling to make ends meet since the SAA was placed under business rescue in December 2019.

“Airchefs has experienced extreme financial difficulty after SAA was placed under business rescue,” said NUMSA’s general secretary Irvin Jim.

“NUMSA together with other recognized trade unions at