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The company I'm with currently has announced that retrenchment will be taking place with in a section of our company. I think that I will be retrenched. My questions are as follows:

- What is the retrenchment payment policy?

- Does my company have to give me a 2 weeks paid notice?

- Is this notice pay part of the retrenchment payment?

- If I’m offered another position for less salary, can they offer me a lesser salary for a lesser position?

- if I decline this offer, will this mean I for fit the 2 weeks’ notice pay and can they then tell me to leave immediately?



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Anonymous

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* Severance package is 1 week for every completed year of service.

* Notice depends on how long you have been working for them. If you have been working for them for longer than a year then you must serve out 4 weeks notice. If they dont want you to work that notice then they must pay you for those 4 weeks anyway.

*Notice pay is only part of the retrenchment package if your employer does not want you to work notice.

* They can offer you a lesser position with a lesser salary.

* Should you refuse a reasonable offer of alternative employment then you forfeit your entire severance package. What is reasonable depends entirely on the circumstances of each case.



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Anonymous

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Thank you for your reply to my questions.

My employer did in fact retrench me. They have asked me to work until the end of the month. My next question is, am I allowed to take time off over these next few days to go for job interviews. Is the company allowed to decline my request for time off and can they deducted anything from my annual leave if I do take a day off to attend interviews.



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Anonymous

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Retrenchment is a traumatic experience and it is expected from the employer to assist you in any ways and means. He can not refuse to let you go for interviews and can not deduct it from your leave. From the day you being retrenched your employer may not even request you to take leave say for example for a notice period or anything else, he must pay your leave out that is due to you.



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Mpumi

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What do you mean by "should you refuse a reasonable offer than you

Forfeit your severance pay"



 



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Anonymous

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On 19 November 2013,my employer served me with retrenchment notice.They paid me two months salaries without working, saying they were still looking for me a space. On 19 January 2014,they refused to give me retrenchment document but saying they shall not continue paying me without working.

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