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The SAA Pilots’ Association (SAAPA) is headed to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration to compel South African Airways business rescue practitioners to pay the 13th cheque its members would have received at the end of 2020 as well as three months’ back pay.
This is the deal offered to pilots who jumped ship and joined the rival union the National Transport Movement last year, according to Saapa chair Grant Back.
Saapa also wants the airline to pay its members eight months of unpaid salaries.
SAA has been unable to pay employee salaries since March last year.
Back said Saapa is going to the CCMA to argue that the non-payment is unfair and that by not paying salaries that have accrued yet remain unpaid, the rescue practitioners are acting unlawfully.
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