Union to fight Telkom’s job cut programme
The SA Communications Union (Sacu) has told Telkom it would fight the phone company’s plans to cut more than 2 600 management jobs because it disagreed with how the decision was reached. Africa’s biggest fixed-line phone company did not comply with the spirit of the Labour Relations Act when it decided to fire employees before informing unions, Sacu said in a letter to Telkom yesterday. The company plans to target white male employees. “The employer is required to consult with their (trade union) representatives when retrenchments are contemplated, not once a decision to retrench has been made,” Sacu said. – Bloomberg
Zuma no comment on nephew’s deal
President Jacob Zuma’s office on Friday declined to comment on a report alleging that he had a hand in securing an investment for his nephew’s mining company in 2010. “No, no, there is no comment, as you can see from the story itself,” his spokesman Mac Maharaj told Sapa. He was referring to a Mail&Guardian report that Zuma allegedly helped secure a $2 million (R13.5m at the time) investment for Khulubuse Zuma’s Aurora Empowerment Systems. Global Emerging Markets director Chris Brown told the newspaper he had been treated to a face-to-face meeting with Zuma on the morning of the Fifa World Cup final on July 11, 2010. – Sapa