A Call For Government To Save Jobs

The Minister of Employment, Labour Productivity and Skills Development Mpho Balopi gave an update on his ministry’s State of Emergency (SoE) exit plan on Friday, revealing that 320 retrenchment notifications from different businesses were turned in.

The minister further shared that from the 320 businesses that notified the Commissioner of Labour about their plans to retrench, 20 were acceded to, which resulted in 204 workers being retrenched during April 2020 and July 2021.

The retrenchments were carried out while the SoE was in place, meaning the companies that succeeded must have had solid reasons, despite the strict SOE regulations imposed on businesses to not retrench. We are left with only 10 days before the end of SoE, and the number of retrenchment notifications will most likely soar.

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