{"id":222689,"date":"2026-02-03T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-union-rejects-500-planned-job-cuts-at-gendev-fishing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:09:48","slug":"namibia-union-rejects-500-planned-job-cuts-at-gendev-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-union-rejects-500-planned-job-cuts-at-gendev-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Union Rejects 500 Planned Job Cuts At Gendev Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>The Namibian Seamen and Allied Workers&#8217; Union (NASAWU) has rejected Gendev Fishing&#8217;s planned retrenchment of 489 employees, citing breaches of labour law and inadequate consultation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Nasawu president Paulus Hango says the union was not properly consulted before workers were issued retrenchment notices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;You cannot just receive a letter saying there is a possible retrenchment . . . We do not accept any form of retrenchment, because it does not meet the requirements of the law,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030210.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Namibian Seamen and Allied Workers&#8217; Union (NASAWU) has rejected Gendev Fishing&#8217;s planned retrenchment of 489 employees, citing breaches of labour law and inadequate consultation. Nasawu president Paulus Hango says the union was not properly consulted before workers were issued retrenchment notices. &#8220;You cannot just receive a letter saying there is a possible retrenchment . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7210,6919,53559,9679,4706,724,257,7665,8440,254,6156],"class_list":["post-222689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cuts","tag-fishing","tag-gendev","tag-job","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-planned","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}