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Now that all the conditions for the implementation of South African Airways’ Business Rescue Plan were met last week, the Department
of Public Enterprises (DPE) and stakeholders have been working around the clock to bring the process closer to finalisation.
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) welcomes the commitment by National Treasury that the government will support and source funding for a business rescue plan for South African Airways (SAA).
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) is
dismayed and concerned by the South African Airways Pilots Association’s (SAAPA) determination to squeeze the last resources out of SAA ahead of the crucial
business rescue vote scheduled for tomorrow (14 July 2020).
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) calls on creditors, unions and other stakeholders to vote in favour of a business rescue plan for SAA tomorrow as this is the only realistic pathway to the restructure the airline and for a new national carrier to emerge from the business rescue process.
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) noted that the South African Airways Pilots Association (SAAPA)s has endorsed the Voluntary Severance Packages (VSPs), which are being offered to individual employees of South African Airways (SAA).
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) welcomes the publication of a revised Business Rescue Plan for SAA and urges creditors, employees and stakeholders to vote in favour of the plan next Tuesday.
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) is encouraged that labour unions, and representatives of non-unionised managers and ground staff, have agreed to accept the South African Airways (SAA) voluntary severance packages (VSPs) which will be supported by a social plan and skills development programme for employees who will be retrenched.
After withdrawing from the Leadership Consultative Forum
(LCF) – a mechanism formed to facilitate employee engagement towards the
development of a business and operating model for a new and restructured South
African Airways (SAA), the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has had bilateral
discussions with all unions and is now calling on them to do the same amongst
themselves and find a solution to the future of the airline.