SABC employees held a heated meeting with the public broadcaster’s COO Ian Plaatjies and Group Executive – News and Current Affairs, Phathiswa Magopeni, over the retrenchment of 400 staff members.
The employees told management they won’t accept the latest round of restructuring plans and called for the resignation of management.
The SABC is planning to cut hundreds of jobs in the coming months.
The broadcaster has recorded a loss of over R500-million in the 2019/2020 financial year.
Trade Union Bemawu says the issuing of what it calls “letters of termination” by the SABC to employees before consultations are concluded is illegal and the matter is to be ventilated in the Labour Court.
The SABC said last week that employees whose posts were redundant would be issued letters by Wednesday this week. Bemawu is applying to the court to interdict retrenchments at the public broadcaster.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said on
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