{"id":96063,"date":"2015-08-18T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=96063"},"modified":"2015-08-18T13:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:11:35","slug":"10000-retrenchments-in-sa-telecoms-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/96063\/10000-retrenchments-in-sa-telecoms-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 retrenchments in SA telecoms sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of jobs at hundreds of companies are currently affected by retrenchment processes &#8211; and employee confidence is at a three-year low.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a new report by trade union Solidarity on the current retrenchment crisis in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The report, compiled by the Solidarity Research Institute, found that 45,000 jobs in 58 companies have been affected by staff reduction processes this year.<\/p>\n<p>An additional 160 companies, where Solidarity members are employed, are also undergoing similar processes, the trade union said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, employees in the mining sector are hardest hit by the retrenchments, followed by employees in the telecommunications and metal industries.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 20,000 (19,807) jobs in the mining sector are under fire, while 9,595 jobs are involved in the telecoms sector, including 47 jobs at Cell C, 578 jobs at MTN, and 8,970 jobs at Telkom.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Retrenchments-in-the-media.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96067\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Retrenchments-in-the-media.png\" alt=\"Retrenchments in the media\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Retrenchments-in-the-media.png 656w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Retrenchments-in-the-media-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johan Kruger, Solidarity\u2019s deputy head, believes that the crisis is stretching far beyond extensive reductions in a few large companies such as Telkom and Lonmin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a trade union, we daily receive enquiries from members at smaller companies that are embarking upon retrenchments on a less extensive scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In June and July 2015, Solidarity had to deal with about 80% more retrenchment-related enquiries from members compared to the same period last year. When taking all these factors into account, one realises the true extent of the crisis,&#8221; Kruger said.<\/p>\n<p>Solidarity said that its call centre has experienced a significant spike between April and July. June and July saw an 81% and 82% rise in calls respectively.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on retrenchments<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/93218\/mass-retrenchments-loom-in-sa-telco-sector\/\">Mass retrenchments loom in SA telco sector<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/95479\/telkom-extends-voluntary-retrenchment-process\/\">Telkom extends voluntary retrenchment process<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/86780\/cell-c-restructuring-could-see-job-cuts-union\/\">Cell C restructuring could see job cuts: union<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of jobs at hundreds of companies are currently affected by retrenchment processes and employee confidence is at a three-year low. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,26,28,1632,65],"class_list":["post-96063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-solidarity","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96063","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=96063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96073,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96063\/revisions\/96073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}