Zuko Komisa

Retrenchment of 4889 Post Office employees is going ahead.
Employees of the SA POST Office (Sapo), who are facing 4889 job losses due to layoffs, have suffered a severe setback following the Joint Business Rescue Practitioners’ (BRPs’) announcement on Tuesday that the TERS application was not approved.
This follows Business Rescue Practitioners’ inability to obtain financing for TERS relief. It was intended that the funds would be used to pay employees while they received retraining and upskilling.
For the following twelve months, while a turnaround strategy was being implemented, the UIF’s TERS would have assisted in paying staff.
Point of View with Phemelo Motene spoke to Tutu Mokoena, the Spokesperson for the workers of the South African Post Office.
Mokone spoke about what the staff endured at the Post Office as well as the effects of the ongoing retrenchment.
“The total staff count of the Post Office is about 10 500, 6 000 of those people have been retrenched, it means Post Office has been running on about 4 000 staff. If you look at the Postal Act, in terms of what is required, it speaks to the service that the citizens of the country deserve; which requires triple that number.”
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