Nissan SA has extended its deadline for the acceptance of early retirement and voluntary severance packages by the company’s older workers by one week.
Nissan SA has extended its deadline for the acceptance of early retirement and voluntary severance packages by the company’s older workers by one week.
Henry Grimbeek, Nissan SA’s senior vice-president of human resources, told that the early retirement offer, which was intended to create space for “younger more energetic workers”, had been postponed because the response had been inadequate.
Grimbeek said the company had received “little more than half of what it anticipated”. He added the closing date of the offer had been postponed by a week with the agreement of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa).
Grimbeek added that Nissan SA would go ahead with the plan and would “bank” whatever applications it received and “whatever we don’t get is a lost opportunity”.
He said the plan to rejuvenate its workforce could be revisited by the company within two or three years if it did not receive the number of applications it anticipated.