{"id":14677,"date":"2012-09-16T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-1-lonmin-rejects-higher-pay-demand-promises-new-approach\/"},"modified":"2012-09-16T16:31:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:31:03","slug":"update-1-lonmin-rejects-higher-pay-demand-promises-new-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-lonmin-rejects-higher-pay-demand-promises-new-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Lonmin rejects higher pay demand, promises new approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin says offers 9-21 pct raises in pay<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Company says committed to end labour unrest<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin says 12,500 rand demand unaffordable<\/p>\n<p> (Adds Hawks to investigate Malema)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Olivia Kumwenda<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Lonmin, due to<br \/>\nresume talks on Monday with strikers at its Marikana platinum<br \/>\nmine in South Africa who rejected a pay rise offer last week,<br \/>\ninsisted it could not meet the workers&#8217; demands but promised a<br \/>\nnew approach in labour relations.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Acting Chief Executive Simon Scott said the deaths at the<br \/>\nmine of protesters, 34 of whom were shot dead by police on Aug.<br \/>\n16, had been a &#8216;wake-up call&#8217; for the company and it was<br \/>\ncommitted to ending the five-week labour unrest in which a total<br \/>\nof 45 people have been killed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In an opinion piece published in the Sunday Times newspaper,<br \/>\nScott said Lonmin would improve discussions with strikers<br \/>\nalthough it could not afford to meet their higher wage demands.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Lonmin, the starting point is to acknowledge that our<br \/>\ncompany must go through a process of self-reflection,&#8221; Scott<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I can promise is that we are committed to playing our<br \/>\npart. We have had our wake-up call, as has the rest of South<br \/>\nAfrica.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Lonmin says offers 9-21 pct raises in pay * Company says committed to end labour unrest * Lonmin says 12,500 rand demand unaffordable (Adds Hawks to investigate Malema) By Olivia Kumwenda JOHANNESBURG, Sept 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Lonmin, due to resume talks on Monday with strikers at its Marikana platinum mine in South Africa who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}