With South African thoroughbred horse race Durban July set to happen this weekend it, however, faces challenges of not coming to pass due to job retrenchments at Phumelela Gaming.
This comes after APSA (Academic & Professional Staff Association) announced on Monday that the ‘ever consistent’ event that takes place in July might not be happening where and when workers are about to lose their jobs and salaries.
“As APSA Trade Union, we have been engaging with Phumelela which controls Durban July to deliberate on the planned retrenchment by the company without any success. Phumelela has unilaterally decided to retrench about 500 staff members claiming that it has a financial crisis, yet increased its management remuneration packages and allowances of its board members who are mainly White males”, APSA said in a statement.
According to APSA, they are left with no option but to declare that Durban July might not take place this year should Phumelela continue with retrenchment and with such arrogance.
“We are giving Phumelela until the 3rd of July 2019 to stop this irrational exercise or wake up to the reality that there won’t be Durban July this year. As we have previously indicated, behind the glitz and glamour of the horseracing industry, fiercely controlled by Phumelela, lies horror stories of abuse and exploitation of workers. Workers at Phumelela, some with more than twenty years of service to the company have no basic employment contracts, pay slips, provident fund, medical aid and are currently being retrenched.”
Added APSA: “This is the same company that cannot even account for missing provident fund benefits for the same employees that have been targeted to be laid off.”
“Those who have invested in Vodacom Durban July either by betting, buying stalls, marques, entertainment or booked hotels and tickets must be aware that their monies are about to go into the drain because of this arrogant and racist employer who treats workers with contempt,” said APSA.
All above is all correct especially with the arrogance part, only incorrect word is the racist word, those controlling Phumelela are equally abusive to anyone who does not fit into their cliques agenda, white or black, in other words to anyone who gets in their way,, forward with the 8 Star luxury liner,
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Did you actually read the hogwash that was written and still miss the point ?
What a stupid, ignorant and factless press release. Surely, even a 5th grader will find the whole statement ludicrous and even laughable.
But, YES and YIPPEE !!! PGL may not retrench, because of white management, even though the rest of the Country is doing just that... this idiot makes totally unfounded statements, especially when blatant lies are added.
So, it's ok for Edcon, MTN, Eskom, SAA, Tongaat Huletts , Coca Cola, etc etc etc to retrench, but NOT Phumelela...???
There's always a Village out there, still searching in vain, to find its lost idiot.
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Phumelela has unilaterally decided to retrench about 500 staff members claiming that it has a financial crisis, yet increased its management remuneration packages and allowances of its board members who are mainly White males”, APSA said in a statement.
As far as I know this is true, I dont know the exact amount of staff to be retrenched but I take the figure on face value, then I add the wastage of directors perks then I take the crazy stupid figure they paid for the Superbet deal and so on and so on,, all this is a 8 Star cruise liner for a small handful at the expense of racing
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