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Greyhound bus service has acceded to the union’s request to halt plans to close its operation.
The bus company will now apply for the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) facilitation of Section 189.
Earlier this week, Greyhound owners Unitrans announced that its Greyhound and Citiliner bus operations will stop on the 14th of February 2021.
This move would affect close to 700 jobs.
The Democratised Transport Logistics and Allied Workers Union (Detawu) has confirmed that it has received a letter from Greyhound management informing it about the CCMA process.
The union’s Deputy Secretary-General Nontembeko Luzipo says they welcome the new plan to try to save the business and jobs.
Treasury will fork out provincial deficit if unions win wage dispute, says Western Cape govt Updated
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The Western Cape government says it has received an undertaking by national government to cover the increase in the cost of compensation of employees in provinces, should the public sector wage agreement take effect.
The commitment by government comes amid a longstanding dispute with public sector employees.
Public sector unions, including the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the Public Servants Association (PSA), are demanding that government honours its three-year wage agreement of 8%.
The dispute may now play out at the Constitutional Court after eight unions applied for leave to appeal an earlier Labour Court judgment relating to the wage increases.
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Greyhound, which has been in business since 1984, confirmed on Wednesday that its operations will cease by Valentineâs Day due to Covid-19 s impact. Image: Greyhound website
Up to 700 jobs are on the line from the planned closure of popular inter-city bus service Greyhound, unions warned on Wednesday.
However, National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) secretary general Irvin Jim has threatened to interdict Greyhoundâs owners Unitrans Passenger to stop closure, saying the union was only informed of the Section 189 retrenchment process on Tuesday.
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Putco announced that it will go ahead with retrenchments in a process that originally had 300 jobs on the line.
The current economic climate has been rocked by nearly a year of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions.
This follows news that long-distance luxury bus service Greyhound will stop operations this month.
Putco confirmed on Thursday that it has arrived at a final figure of 214 jobs to be cut in its retrenchment process, after engaging with unions over the course of months in a process where 300 job cuts were originally planned.
The news comes in an economic climate that has been rocked by nearly a year of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions which limited people’s ability to travel and organise big gatherings.