{"id":81671,"date":"2015-03-03T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T09:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=81671"},"modified":"2015-03-03T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T09:12:28","slug":"retrenchment-packages-offered-at-vodacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/81671\/retrenchment-packages-offered-at-vodacom\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrenchment packages offered at Vodacom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Vodacom staff members have been offered voluntary retrenchment packages, also known as mutual separation agreements (MSA).<\/p>\n<p>However, Vodacom made it clear that there is no staff retrenchment programme underway.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband received the information from Vodacom staff members who were offered 3 months\u2019 salary and their pension if they agreed to resign.<\/p>\n<p>According to one source, he was told this offer was confidential and that he has 2 days to decide whether he will take the offer.<\/p>\n<p>He added this seems to be happening at multiple regional Vodacom offices around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom told MyBroadband it does not have a staff retrenchment programme underway.<\/p>\n<p>However, the company did say that as part of the normal course of business it continually looks at how it is structured and how efficiencies can be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not unique to Vodacom, and will from time to time result in changes in specific roles,\u201d said Vodacom.<\/p>\n<p>This article was republished with <a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/120820-vodacom-staff-offered-retrenchment-packages.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/120820-vodacom-staff-offered-retrenchment-packages.html\">permission from MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on on Vodacom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Government eyes Vodacom sale, MTN mulls Telkom buy: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/78823\/government-eyes-vodacom-sale-mtn-mulls-telkom-buy-report\/\"><strong>Government eyes Vodacom sale, MTN mulls Telkom buy: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Neotel deal to make life tougher for Telkom: Vodacom CEO\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/77371\/neotel-deal-to-make-life-tougher-for-telkom-vodacom-ceo\/\"><strong>Neotel deal to make life tougher for Telkom: Vodacom CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom takes R1 billion MTRs hit\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/72886\/mtrs-costs-vodacom-r1-billion\/\"><strong>Vodacom takes R1 billion MTRs hit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Vodacom staff members have been offered voluntary retrenchment packages, but the company said there is no staff retrenchment programme underway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":72968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,2156,27],"class_list":["post-81671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-retrenchments","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81671","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81675,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81671\/revisions\/81675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}