ANCYL urges Communications Department to save about 5,000 SA Post Office jobs
A last-minute application by business rescuers to the Temporary Employer/Employees Relief Scheme that would have halted the lay-offs for at least another year failed on Wednesday.
The South African Post Office. Picture: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp
JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) has urged the Department of Communications to not go ahead with major job lay-offs at the South African Post Office (SAPO).
About 5,000 SAPO workers are set to be retrenched from the struggling state-owned entity.
A last-minute application by business rescuers to the Temporary Employer/Employees Relief Scheme that would have halted the lay-offs for at least another year failed on Wednesday.
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Speaking at a media briefing earlier on Thursday, president of the ANCYL Collen Malatji said the governing party cannot let so many people lose their livelihoods.
He added that this would also negatively impact the sustainability of the South African Post Bank.
“We call upon the minister of communications to immediately re-instate Post Bank workers so they are seized to capacitate the post bank as a proper commercial bank.”