Jobs growth has averaged 20% a year since 2008 even as electricity output fell amid frequent breakdowns of ageing coal-fired generation plants ESKOM has quietly shelved plans to reduce staff numbers and arrest spiralling costs after a voluntary separation process attracted thousands of applications from people with skills it did not want to lose.In the first month of the voluntary separation process, announced by former CEO Tshediso Matona in November, Eskom received 4,000 applications, sources said."These were the kind of skills the company needed to retain," said one source. Eskom employs just more than 46,000.Jobs growth has averaged 20% a year since 2008 even as electricity produced declined in that period, due to frequent breakdowns of ageing coa1-fired generation plants."It was decided that the process must be stopped as it would leave Eskom without key people," the source said.Twenty employees left in March, including senior and special skills staff in the nuclear division, a...
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