{"id":71512,"date":"2014-10-23T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=71512"},"modified":"2014-10-23T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T09:19:00","slug":"telkom-wont-pay-marching-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/71512\/telkom-wont-pay-marching-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom won&#8217;t pay marching workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has made it clear that leave will not be granted to employees involved in a Communication Workers Union (CWU) march next week.<\/p>\n<p>The CWU is planning to march to Telkom offices on 28 October 2014 to hand over a memorandum to the company.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom has informed employees that the CWU march is only planned for the Pretoria region. However, Telkom said that it might spill over into Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and North West regions.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom highlighted that attendance registers will be kept for the day and the absence of any employee, due to participation in the march, will result in a \u201cNo work, No pay\u201d ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that no leave should be authorised for employees for 28 October, unless prior arrangements were made well in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom urged its management staff to prepare for the march, asking them to put contingency plans in place to mitigate any mass absence.<\/p>\n<p>The operator also warned employees that all company vehicles will be tracked, and that unauthorised trips will be dealt with in terms of the disciplinary procedure.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom-BCX acquistion \u201con track\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/71319\/telkom-bcx-acquistion-on-track\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom-BCX acquistion \u201con track\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Telkom store robbed in Irene\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/71219\/telkom-store-robbed-in-irene\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Telkom store robbed in Irene<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Solidarity \u201ckeeping a close watch\u201d on Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/71079\/solidarity-keeping-a-close-watch-on-telkom\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Solidarity \u201ckeeping a close watch\u201d on Telkom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has made it clear that leave will not be granted to employees involved in a Communication Workers Union march next week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":69183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1553,26,65],"class_list":["post-71512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-cwu","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71514,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71512\/revisions\/71514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}