{"id":14752,"date":"2012-09-18T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/gold-fields-says-unwilling-to-entertain-wage-demands\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:39:29","slug":"gold-fields-says-unwilling-to-entertain-wage-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gold-fields-says-unwilling-to-entertain-wage-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Fields says unwilling to entertain wage demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The chief executive of<br \/>\nSouth Africa&#8217;s third largest gold producer Gold Fields<br \/>\nsaid on Tuesday the group was not willing to consider strikers&#8217;<br \/>\nwage demands of a minimum of 12,500 rand ($1,500) a month for<br \/>\nnow.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly at this stage we will not entertain any of that. We<br \/>\nhave a two year wage deal that expires on the 30th of June next<br \/>\nyear and as far as I am concerned that&#8217;s it,&#8221; Nick Holland told<br \/>\nReuters Insider on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold Fields&#8217; KDC West operations in South Africa have been<br \/>\nhalted by an illegal strike since Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>($1 = 8.2075 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas and Olivia Kumwenda; Editing<br \/>\nby)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; The chief executive of South Africa&#8217;s third largest gold producer Gold Fields said on Tuesday the group was not willing to consider strikers&#8217; wage demands of a minimum of 12,500 rand ($1,500) a month for now. &#8220;Clearly at this stage we will not entertain any of that. We have a [&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-14752","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\/14752","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=14752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}