/ 29 May 2000

SAA MANAGERS CHALLENGE AIRLINE OF JOBS

SEVEN South Afrian Airways crew managers are expected to apply for an interdict on Monday, to stop their positions in the airline’s in-flight services division being declared redundant. Six of the managers have already raised concerns over SAA’s senior management in a report handed to the Transnet board in January. Staff were informed last week that the 18 positions made redundant in IFS were to be replaced by 21 new posts, the Business Report said. The employees have been asked to apply for the new positions, which, the paper says, will be filled on the basis of a “competency fit”. The managers allege that there are no changes between the job descriptions of the new positions and those that have been made redundant.