Trade union Solidarity says hundreds of former Telkom employees, who were transferred as part of a restructuring exercise to another business unit again face an uncertain future.
Solidarity says another 255 former Telkom employees are yet again facing restructuring after they had been transferred to WNS earlier this year as part of Telkom’s section 197 business transfer process.
This notice followed soon after the issuing of a similar notice by Barloworld Logistics.
Solidarity's Marius Croucamp says that in the notice, WNS states that it intends to consolidate the nine current Telkom service centres with the two current WNS service centres.
Croucamp said such a move would mean that Telkom service centres in Gauteng, Bloemfontein and Cape Town would soon be relocated to Durban and Port Elizabeth and would affect workers not willing to accept voluntary severance packages.
Solidarity said former Telkom employees transferred to Barloworld Logistics are also facing the same fate.
