Johannesburg – Trade union Solidarity on Thursday warned Telkom not to use race in deciding which employees to retrench.
“Solidarity today gave Telkom a final warning to abandon the race criteria it uses for retrenchments,” the union’s industry head Marius Croucamp said in a statement.
He said it was unlawful to do so.
“How can any employer penalise an employee based on his or her race in the decision-making process to retrench people? This criterion is simply built into the process to ensure that Telkom’s BEE rating is promoted and to ensure that the ANC’s ideology of absolute race representivity is achieved,” he said.
Solidarity was consulting its lawyers and preparing to take the matter to the labour court…
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