Beeld writes that a letter doing the rounds at Eskom makes the claim that the parastatal’s problems with load shedding and delays with the Medupi and Kusile stations coming on stream are attributable to the manner in which affirmative action is being applied at the power utility. The letter writer, who wants to remain anonymous, is a highly trained technician who has 30 years’ experience at Eskom. He claims that job competence training does not take place at Eskom, which only has a goal of getting its employment equity figures right. He claims there have been promotions and appointments to artisan positions without regard to proficiency, but the appointees don’t take any technical advice. The employees from the old dispensation are said to be very demotivated because if they complain about skill shortages “the race card is played.” The National Union of Metalworkers of SA’s (Numsa’s) Stephen Nhlapo agreed yesterday that the manner in which Eskom applied affirmative action seriously affected service delivery. He confirmed that job training does not take place at Eskom. “Training is the aspect that is last on the list of Eskom’s priorities. Let’s be honest, a lot of the people who work at Eskom do not have the skills required of them (freely translated),” Nhlapo said. Meanwhile, the whites take their pensions, leave and then come back as consultations, he claimed. He indicated that Numsa was busy with a comprehensive investigation into Eskom. Dirk Groenewald of Solidarity, which has 7,000 members at Eskom, commented that it looked as if Eskom did not make use of available experience and instead focused on employment being in terms of the economic active population. This had a very negative effect on delivery and the morale of workers, he said. salabournews.co.za/index.php/component/content/article/70-labour-news/22201-affirmative-action-has-led-to-eskoms-problems.html
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:12:45 +0000
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