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Numsa, SACCA head to court over unpaid SAA salaries
The unions want the court to compel the Public Enterprises Department and the airline's business rescue practitioners to pay over three months' deferred...
According to unions, the business rescue practitioners are offering workers three months remuneration and a 13th cheque but they'll have to let go of the five remaining months’ worth of salaries.
The association said the department can't use unions as scapegoats and they won't be allowing government to bully employees.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has announced that government has allocated another R10.5 billion to the broke airline.
Workers have been picketing outside the SAA park offices.
Workers demonstrated after government missed a deadline to make funding available for a restructuring plan.
In a statement on Thursday evening, the unions said it was a disgrace that the business rescue process is still ongoing, adding that this places the cash strapped carrier in danger of liquidation.
The airline is waiting for funding from government to pay out the approved packages.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and South African Cabin Crew Association took the practitioners to court last month to halt the layoff of workers.
The unions say they are exploring their legal option to stop the liquidation of troubled the national airline and SA Express, following the Finance Minister's statement that there will be no more bailouts for SAA.
The department said it had given everything it could to the voluntary severance packages and would not consider the union’s demands, which it called unreasonable.
The department announced on Sunday that it was pulling out of the leadership consultative forum established to find a way to work with unions to try to save the embattled airline.
Creditors were expected to vote on whether to implement the business rescue practitioners’ (BRPs) controversial business plan to save the broke airline.
The unions said they were dismayed with the content published by SAA's business rescue practitioners in conjunction with the department.
The unions said the plan as is lacked substance and needs to be tested by the labour sector.
SAA’s business rescue practitioners (BRPs) have been given 25 days to produce a business rescue plan for the beleaguered airline.
The criticism comes after Siviwe Dongwana And Les Matuson's decision to appeal the Labour Court's ruling, preventing their plans of cutting jobs at SAA from going ahead.
The unions said that the court judgment ordering the business rescue practitioners to stop the retrenchment processes at South African Airways (SAA) was proof that they never had the workers' best interests at heart.
The union and the association claim workers have received threats of retrenchments and intimidation from business rescue practitioners at the national carrier.