FAWU: Tongaat Hulett not following due process in retrenchments
The Food and Allied Workers Union says it is taken aback by Tongaat Hulett's announcement that it could retrench up to 5 000 workers.
The company says permanent and temporary workers will be affected. The sugar industry has been under pressure lately with the implementation of sugar tax and the importing of sugar from other countries.
Tongaat Huletts says it underwent a full financial review to stabilise the business.
FAWU’s Mayo Mngomezulu says they will challenge the decision claiming due process has not being followed.
"We will be meeting with the company. As a matter of fact we have written a letter to the company advising them to follow the prescripts of the Labour Relations Act in terms of retrenchments", he said.
"The cannot simply retrench by announcing it. The law is clear in terms of processes they need to follow before the retrench. One of those is to notify us, as a union, and they have not done that", Mngomezulu said.