Post Office to cut salaries, working hours in bid to slash staff costs

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Article highlights:

  • The SA Post Office could eliminate 40% of staff salaries through a reduced work week programme, according to the DA spokesperson on communications, Dianne Kohler Barnard.
  • Staff related expenses account for 68% of the Post Office’s total expenditure.
  • Kohler Barnard said that the scheme amounts to “nothing more nor less than constructive dismissal”, but the Post Office says it is trying to avoid forced retrenchments.