Employees of GAAL want to know whether management will be paying bank charges incurred due to insufficient funds
POLOKWANE – GAAL employees picketed at the Polokwane International Airport over unpaid salaries earlier today, which they say is affecting their livelihood.
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.
Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard
