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GroundUp reports that about 200 workers of poultry company Daybreak Foods affiliated with the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU).marched to the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) in Pretoria on Friday.
They were demanding to be paid Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) funds. TERS provides temporary financial assistance of up to 12 months to companies or employees facing financial distress. Daybreak Foods, owned by the Public Investment Corporation, was placed under business rescue in July this year and applied for the TERS, according to Mokete Ntsoereng, the secretary of the employees’ committee at the company. “The majority of the workers were sent home when the business rescue started. The workers sitting at home are receiving a stipend of R1,500 every month,” said Ntsoereng.
Most of the workers explained how difficult life has been at home without a living wage. They appealed to the DEL to speedily approve the application of Daybreak Foods for TERS. Among their demands was for the DEL to help with temporary relief to workers while the company stabilised under business rescue, and to support the long-term success of the adopted business plan. The memorandum was accepted by Masilo Lefika, the DEL’s deputy director for employment equity, who promised to give feedback to the group.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Warren Mabona at GroundUp
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