Re-hired Implats workers won't get benefits

This means that unless there are changes to the scheme, the 7000 workers who were not dismissed with share handsome returns when the scheme makes its second and final payment to them in 2016.

Bob Gilmour, group executive in charge of corporate relations could not confirm how many of the 17 200 fired workers had been members of the scheme but he believed the majority were.

Meanwhile Lesiba Seshoka of the National Union of Mineworkers said the share scheme was "one of the poorest in the industry" and warned that the loss of this and other benefits could result in protracted labour disputes for Implats.

For more:

• Business Report: Rehired platinum workers to lose out on employee benefits
  
• NUM: National Union of Mineworkers.