This meant that last week the company issued section 189 notices to 22,000 full-time and temporary employees across the group. This is more than half of the group’s 39,000 full-time and temporary employees and deals a massive blow to SA Inc’s efforts to protect jobs.
The BRP’s have been at pains to stress that while this process is unfolding, the sales process is not yet complete and thus the number of redundancies and dismissals is not yet clear.
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