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Blackouts hit pay packets

IOL: "Many companies have already restructured shifts, sending employees home during load-shedding, and devised plans to pay for hours worked.

In a statement sent to employers on Tuesday, the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa (Seifsa) recommended that managements should pay workers for a minimum of four hours if they were forced to send them home due to power cuts."

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