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Retrenchment still on the rise

Mokgethi PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Mokgethi PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

As the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to shrink various companies’ personnel, government has revealed that since last year February, 860 employees have been retrenched.

Last year in Parliament, Machana Shamukuni, then minister of Employment Labour Productivity and Skills Development, disclosed that the number of people retrenched between April 2020 and February 2022 stood at 344.

This week in Parliament, assistant minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mabuse Pule revealed that a total of 1,204 employees were retrenched between April 2020 and March 2023.

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