Eskom has seen 691 engineers, technicians, and artisans leave its workforce over the past three years.
Hundreds of skilled artisans, technicians, and engineers are walking away from South Africa’s state-owned companies, including Eskom, and they aren’t hiring enough qualified workers to compensate for the losses.
It said it had hired 17,207 employees over the same period, of which 10,942 were permanent, and 6,265 were employed on fixed-term contracts.“The higher level of exits as compared to hires was in line with Eskom’s headcount management strategy that came into effect in FY2019, as Eskom aimed to optimise its workforce and escalating manpower costs, while retaining prioritised core, critical and scarce skills,” it added.
At the request of public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan, labour union Solidarity provided a list ofOf the 300 listed skilled experts provided by Solidarity, Eskom had only appointed 18 of them as of 19 September 2022. “Crowdsourcing differs from recruitment in that it is triggered by specific technical challenges, is not linked to a permanent position, and it targets a talent pool that consists of highly skilled and experienced persons,” Eskom said.Be a highly skilled electricity generation expert or technical professional, including engineers, power plant operators/controllers, artisans, and technicians;Be willing to transfer skills and expertise.
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