Tough time for ex Telkom staffers

File picture: Leon Nicholas

File picture: Leon Nicholas

Published Oct 2, 2015

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Pretoria - Trade union Solidarity said Friday that hundreds of former Telkom employees, who were transferred – as part of a restructuring exercise – to another business again face an uncertain future.

Solidarity said “another 255 former Telkom employees” were yet again facing restructuring after they had been transferred to WNS earlier this year as part of Telkom’s section 197 business transfer process. This notice followed soon after the issuing of a similar notice by Barloworld Logistics.

“In the notice, WNS states that it intends to consolidate the nine current Telkom service centres with the two current WNS service centres,” explained Marius Croucamp, the union’s communication industry head.

Croucamp said such a move would mean that Telkom service centres in Gauteng, Bloemfontein and Cape Town would soon be relocated to Durban and Port Elizabeth.

“Should employees not accept a voluntary severance package or cannot be transferred such affected employees are likely to be retrenched.”

However, Croucamp warned that WNS may not, in terms of the Labour Relations Act, retrench former Telkom employees because they have been transferred in terms of a section 197 business transfer process.

“Telkom is co-responsible for this process and has to accept responsibility for yet again subjecting these employees to restructuring within such a short time span,” Croucamp said.

“Solidarity will do everything in its power to assist its members during the process. Our members are our first priority and their interests come first,” Croucamp added.

Solidarity said former Telkom employees transferred to Barloworld Logistics are also facing the same fate.

AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY

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