
Banking strike: No proper procedure, no protected strike

“In the banking sector strike,” says Jonathan Goldberg, CEO of national human capital, labour law and business consulting firm Global Business Solutions, “the issue related to socio-economic issues, which are governed by a process of consultation at Nedlac. This procedure was not followed and therefore the socio-economic protest action would not be protected.”
The strike was planned in response to the mass banking retrenchments earlier this year. This was due to a more digital banking approach and a decreased need for offline banks. “The move towards digitalisation,” concludes Goldberg, “is not a phenomenon that is restricted to the banking sector. It’s a global move that is happening across all industries. This doesn’t mean that the people who’re being retrenched are suddenly unemployable. As employers, we now need to put our thinking caps on and see how we can use these people’s skills in other aspects of our business.”
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