{"id":7599,"date":"2012-02-03T01:38:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T23:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-2-s-africas-implats-fires-13000-workers\/"},"modified":"2012-02-03T01:38:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T23:38:22","slug":"update-2-s-africas-implats-fires-13000-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-s-africas-implats-fires-13000-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-S.Africa&#8217;s Implats fires 13,000 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds trade union comment)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum<br \/>\n, the world&#8217;s second largest platinum producer, said on<br \/>\nThursday it had dismissed 13,000 employees, bringing to 17,200<br \/>\nthose sacked since the start of a labour dispute almost two<br \/>\nweeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Workers were given until Wednesday to return to work at its<br \/>\nRustenburg operations or face dismissal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A process of rehiring, which could give the fired workers a<br \/>\nchance to reapply for their jobs, would be &#8220;undertaken in due<br \/>\ncourse&#8221;, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The stoppage is costing Implats 3,000 platinum ounces a day<br \/>\nin lost production.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The dispute centres on retention bonuses awarded to only<br \/>\npart of the workforce. The latest round of dismissals follows<br \/>\nthe firing of drill operators who initiated a stay-away a<br \/>\nfortnight ago that was declared illegal by a court.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said it was<br \/>\ndisappointed the company had resorted to firing-and-rehiring.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>NUM spokesman Lesiba Seshoka said the process of rehiring<br \/>\ntook a long time and the longer it took, the harder the<br \/>\noperations would be hit.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trade union believes that many of those dismissed were<br \/>\nnot on strike but prevented from reporting for work due to<br \/>\nintimidation.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds trade union comment) JOHANNESBURG Feb 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum , the world&#8217;s second largest platinum producer, said on Thursday it had dismissed 13,000 employees, bringing to 17,200 those sacked since the start of a labour dispute almost two weeks ago. Workers were given until Wednesday to return to work at its Rustenburg operations [&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-7599","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\/7599","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=7599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}