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Johannesburg - Telkom [JSE:TKG] faces a skills crisis after
granting more than 1 500 voluntary severance packages (VSPs) to experienced
workers, trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday
"In more than 57% of the applications which were
approved, the employees were close to retirement and that is exactly where
Telkom's wealth of skills is contained," spokesperson Marius Croucamp
said.
He said the VSPs were granted one day after the expiry of an
agreement on job security, reached in 2009.
"Telkom now wants to transfer the skills of 945
employees, each with between 10 and 30 years' experience in the industry, to
remaining Telkom employees who are already functioning under a lot more
pressure," Croucamp said.
Telkom was not able to comment.
