Rain axes dozens of staff at Joburg offices

[Jan]

Retrenchments at Rain

Mobile network operator Rain has retrenched dozens of employees as part of the transition of its Johannesburg offices from a headquarters into a regional branch, despite previously promising the change would not result in job losses.

The confirmation comes after a source with knowledge of the matter alleged that the company had "effectively retrenched over 100 employees" after they refused to relocate to the operator's new headquarters in Cape Town.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Not a smart move by Rain to move HQ to CT, there is a reason why all the networks HQ is in JHB/JHB border for Telkom

 

[Peon]

Where is Rain on the MyBB charts again?

 

[borro]

 

[Grubscrew]

HQ in Cape Town? My Gauteng Rands for Gauteng Companies.

 

[now05ster]

HQ in Cape Town? My Gauteng Rands for Gauteng Companies.

Why?

 

[r00igev@@r]

Was this voluntary retrenchment?

 

[Quicks]

Rain just seems like a terrible company. Poor service, unreliable products, and now liars as well.

 

[boobza]

Rain dropping employees like they drop packets.

 

[DapperDanMan]

@rain_mobile

Were you sent off to Cape Town or to India?
(Which one, and how was your trip?)

 

[Sapphiron]

Was this voluntary retrenchment?

Yep, "refusing to relocate", sound like they were given the option to retain their job.

 

[epah]

@rain_mobile

Were you sent off to Cape Town or to India?
(Which one, and how was your trip?)

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We all know their customer support is outsourced from india, I doubt there are any south african customer support employees left. But Rain is not transparent.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Yep, "refusing to relocate", sound like they were given the option to retain their job.

Only if relocation costs are covered. Why should you pay out of pocket for a decision you had no part in...

 

[DapperDanMan]

But Rain is not transparent.

Looks pretty transparent to me.

 

[dscoetc]

Retrenchments at Rain

Mobile network operator Rain has retrenched dozens of employees as part of the transition of its Johannesburg offices from a headquarters into a regional branch, despite previously promising the change would not result in job losses.

The confirmation comes after a source with knowledge of the matter alleged that the company had "effectively retrenched over 100 employees" after they refused to relocate to the operator's new headquarters in Cape Town.

There's a lot of outsourcing and Consultent employment being given to people from other countries. Especially in Telecommunications. Not sure where South Africa's government stands regarding this. Even labour brokering or outsource employment that's supposed to cater for project based employment but ends up being continuous contract renewal process for year on year, just to abuse loopholes in labour law.

 

[epah]

just to abuse loopholes in labour law.

Are there any loopholes in the BEE legislation?

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

if you worked there and lost your job, don't lose hope ... it can't rain all the time

/badumtish

 

[r00igev@@r]

Yep, "refusing to relocate", sound like they were given the option to retain their job.

That would then be fired.

 

[Thugscub]

Thought this was a multi billion dollar company?

 

[DapperDanMan]

Are there any loopholes in the BEE legislation?

Yes.

If you are Chinese you also qualify as Black even if you don't identify as such.