"NUM temporarily saves Anglogold Ashanti jobs", 23 Jan 2017

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Monday, said that it had successfully negotiated an agreement to avoid retrenchments at AngloGold Ashanti following the mine's decision to lay off more than 800 workers at its South African operations...NUM met with Anglogold Ashanti with the purpose to seek avoidance measures that would minimise the retrenchment of workers to zero after the gold miner issued Section 189 notice to retrench 849 workers...On Monday NUM Mining Coordinator at AngloGold Ashanti Tafa Moya, said the union and the miner agreed that workers would be transferred to other business units within the company and the other workers would be re-skilled for other jobs...AngloGold Ashanti spokesperson Chris Nthite confirmed the meeting, but said it was too early to predict the overall outcome of the agreement...