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Business Report writes that desperate SA Express workers on Tuesday pleaded with the government to pay them their three months of outstanding salaries and severance packages before the airline’s provisional liquidation was made final next week.
The plea was contained in a letter to Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan from SA Express pilot Captain Willem van der Merwe. He claimed it was unfair for the government to show willingness to spend around R2 billion to retrench excess staff at SA Airways (SAA), but make no attempt at doing the same at the sister company. “We just want to be treated fairly, decently and with respect. The government is telling companies to look after their staff during Covid-19 pandemic, but it is not doing the same to us,” Van der Merwe said. In April, the Johannesburg High Court granted an order for the provisional liquidation of state-owned SA Express after it was placed under business rescue in February. If the provisional liquidation remains unchallenged, a final liquidation order will be granted next Tuesday and the contracts of 691 employees will lapse within 72 hours. SA Express employees have not been paid their salaries for March, April and May and have had to rely on the unemployment insurance fund temporary relief funds for survival.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Siphelele Dludla at Business Report
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