POLOKWANE – GAAL employees picketed at the Polokwane International Airport over unpaid salaries earlier today, which they say is affecting their livelihood.
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Several employees, with placcards, picketed outside the main enterance to the airport after waking up to no salaries.
Mapula Sethagane told the Polokwane Review that some employees were paid half of their salaries, while others’ were quartered. “We don’t know if we can even call them salaries,” she said.
Sethagane says calls to meet with management over unpaid salaries has fallen on deaf ears and that employees want to know whether bank charges incurred due to insufficient funds will be paid by their employee.
Acting CEO, Paul Moloto says employees were paid but that there was a processing error. “We met with employees and we will make sure that their full salaries are paid by end of business today. Our main focus was to rectify the error made,” he said.
