THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) said on Sunday it rejects any attempts by the Business Rescue Practitioners (BRP) at Comair to reduce salaries of employees.
“We reject attempts to extend the backward collective agreement,” said NUMSA general secretary Irvin Jim.
“We demand that from the 1st of January 2022 all employees will receive their salaries in full and will no longer be paid only 70% of their salaries.”
Comair, which operates scheduled services on domestic routes as a British Airways franchisee, resumed flights on 1 September 2021, after the service was suspended owing to Covid-19 lockdown regulations.
Jim said since signing the collective agreement in September 2020, employees have been earning only 70% of their salaries.
The business rescue practitioners have been in charge of the company since May 2020, even though at this point the airline is fully operational.
And they are reluctant to say
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