LETTER: Eskom job cuts are imperative
The government urgently needs to initiate a 16,000-headcount reduction
28 August 2019 - 05:00
There is much hand-wringing as to how to save Eskom. Many decisions have to made, and implemented. One of the simplest, but also most politically unpopular, is that the bloated workforce needs to be shrunk, and soon.
Basic information in the public domain suggests the 48,000-strong workforce is at least a third too large. It’s worse than that, as Eskom has tens of thousands of contractors — but that’s a story for another day. A 16,000-headcount reduction appears realistic, at an average cost to company of, say, R650,000 a head. This equates to R10.4bn a year, or about R100bn over 10 years. ..
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