Eskom dispels recruitment drive
The power utility has emphasised that it was not currently hiring any new employees.
Power utility Eskom has dispelled recent media reports about them recruiting new staff through a recruitment drive.
“Eskom wishes to reiterate that it is not hiring any new staff. There is no recruitment drive,” spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said.
Contrary to the reports, he explained the power utility was on an active drive to reduce overhead costs through natural attrition and voluntary separation packages which were being offered to managerial staff.
“Eskom has, on numerous occasions, publicly stated the need to reduce overhead costs and to sustainably reduce expenditure,” Mantshantsha said.
“This is being done through natural attrition and, in addition, has so far been done through two rounds of voluntary severance packages offered to managerial level staff over the past two years.”
Meanwhile, Eskom’s group executive for human resources Elsie Pule said only critical skills which were not available from their existing workforce would be recruited externally.
“This will follow an exhaustive internal search process and the highest levels of governance approvals,” she said.
The “responsible” management of costs had reportedly thus far resulted in the number of employees at the power utility, including their fixed-term contractors, declining by 4.5% to 42 749 employees in the year ended March 2021, compared to 44 772 employees the last year.
This was said to be the second consecutive year where the power utility had managed to reduce the number of people who were employed across Eskom from 46 665 people in the year ended March 2019.
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