Solidarity taking Post Office to court for unpaid medical aid contributions of over R600 million

[Jan]

SA Post Office taken to court over R600 million in unpaid medical aid fees

Trade union Solidarity will bring an urgent court application against the South African Post Office for failing to pay contributions of more than R600 million to employees’ medical funds.

Solidarity said it would launch the urgent court application against the SA Post Office (SAPO) as early as Tuesday, 28 September.

 

[TheMightyQuin]

So every month they took the staff contributions and literally stole it...

This is my surprised face.

 

[Binary_Bark]

That's good and all that, but where does Solidarity think the corrupt and bankrupted post-office going to get the money from to pay these people?





From us, those who actually still pay the taxes of this failed criminal state.

 

[Utterly Confused]

From what I read regarding the negative reports with the corruption in all the SOE's is that the inevitable will soon come to pass. South Africa will become just another Zimbabwe. Thank you cANCer and all the morons that vote for you.

 

[TPM]

Charge all those that mismanaged funds .... how could they spend millions on cosmetic "beautifying uogrades" when it added no value. Tenders that offered little service value should be forensically investigated and those that benefited, charged and money clawed back

 

[Utterly Confused]

Charge all those that mismanaged funds .... how could they spend millions on cosmetic "beautifying uogrades" when it added no value. Tenders that offered little service value should be forensically investigated and those that benefited, charged and money clawed back

Definitely wont happen. Not the African way.

 

[j4ck455]

“It is a pity that we have to go to court time and again to force state institutions to do the right thing,” said Van der Bijl.

Unions really need to get their act together: for a start, why is an urgent court application only being sought now when SAPO has not paid medical aid fees for 15 months in the middle of a pandemic?

After 1 month of non payment is when unions should be taking legal action against employers, and hell it's SAPO employees, if there's one legal letter that SAPO employees actually will deliver, it the legal letter that craps on their bosses from a dizzy height.

Take the Solidarity versus Denel court case as an example of complete and utter pointlessness:

Small victory for unpaid Denel employees

Labour union Solidarity has received millions from state-owned arms manufacturer Denel, which it will use to pay the outstanding salaries of its members at Denel Land Systems and Denel Dynamics.

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It took more than 12 months for Denel to cough up R4 million in unpaid salaries (and only for May to July 2020) and still owes employees some R596 million.

That's a 0.66% "victory", small sounds like an exaggeration.

Based on news reports, Denel only coughed up that R4 million just before the sheriff was due to have a fire sale at Denel.

Solidarity's lawyers need to be threatening to go after the personal assets of SOE board members and top management.

Solidarity, be proactive, not reactive.

As for the other unions with representation in SOEs, WTF are they doing?

What is the CWU doing about SAPO?

 

[The_Librarian]

Viva Decolonized cadre deployment, Viva!

 

[grok]

So every month they took the staff contributions and literally stole it...

This is my surprised face.

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The first black owned company I worked for did exactly the same, advocate advised against taking it further, said I'll be wasting my money since they're so well connected (to the ANC).