A man seen at the South African Post Office ques. is planning to retrench a bulk of its workers after issuing a Section 189 notice. Workers say they have learnt with shock the planned move by the Post Office which will affect 6 000 workers.
This forms part of a turnaround strategy that will include the cutting of staff salaries by as much as 40%. SAPO says this is in a bid to cut employment costs and ensure the entity is profitable after it incurred a loss of R2.3 billion in the past financial year.General Secretary Aubrey Tshabalala says they will challenge the planned retrenchments.
“This happens at a time when we are in discussions around the 40% salary cut or hours of work. So what does it paint to us? It paints a very indecisive management that a week back you were thinking of cutting salaries, and a week later you are now thinking of dismissing almost everyone in the bargain area – meaning that those who are basically doing the actual work in the post office, almost all of them are facing dismissal.
SAPO’s plan is said to be on their restructuring plans that have, amongst others identified the “staff costs” as the “highest cost drivers” of the “cost base that far exceeds its revenues”.
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They pretty much gave all their business away through bad service and mismanagement, and the private sector basically took over all their traditional business. The customers won't go back....
All SOE plainly ill managed
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The pathetic n rude service expirence that I got from some of these sapo staff before, makes me now not care or feel sorry towards them at all
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