SAA "Non-whites given preference for overtime & training"

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SAA man apologises for blunder

January 25, 2008 Edition 2

Staff Writer

A SOUTH AFRICAN Airways senior manager has apologised to his staff after sending out an e-mail saying "non-white" individuals had to be given preference for overtime and extra training.

Zak Liyaqat-Ali, the airline's manager for avionics and in-flight entertainment, said his managers had been made aware of the e-mail after he sent out an apology.

He said the initial e-mail had been intended to lead to a balance in the "ratio of full-complement (cabin crew)".

"My request was not extraordinary. I needed to address the unfairness (of overtime allocation)."
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In his e-mail, to six supervisors, Liyaqat-Ali instructed that "in regards to overtime, kindly ensure that if there (are) any non-white individuals, they must be accommodated first".

Clive Else, SAA's chief executive for technical operations, said that Liyaqat-Ali had sent out his first e-mail at 8am on Wednesday and had apologised several hours later for the wording.

He had replaced it yesterday with an e-mail that made it clear that the intention was to allocate overtime work equitably in the department, Else said.

Last year, SAA's chief executive, Khaya Ngqula, said that the carrier was to axe 1 000 jobs across all sections because of high operating costs. Cape Times
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My guess is that this happens a lot in SA, but not openly.:eek:
 
I'm wondering. You can apply AA in hiring of employees to fulfil quotas. But once you have hired can you discriminate against your staff on the basis of race? Isn't that illegal.
 
The blunder was sending out the email and putting it in writing, not the policy.
 
In fact not even my soon to be 'chav'* cat will be flying SAA

*She's going to be quarantined in Essex..
 
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