Significant job losses at Pick n Pay, with more expected to come, are considered a necessary structural shift at the country's second-largest food retailer to make it more competitive in a tough economy. Pick n Pay, which has cut 3 500 jobs, is embarking on a second round of retrenchments, it was confirmed on Friday. Bones Skulu, general secretary of the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union (Saccawu), said Pick n Pay has issued two more notices to employees with the intention of retrenchment. "One was sent to a plant in the Western Cape, with the intention to retrench by the 31st of October this year. The other to the group's employees in the property division with the same intention," said Skulu. The retrenchments will also be targeting staff across sections of workers in Pick n Pay's property division. David North, Pick n Pay's group executive of strategy and corporate affairs, said on Friday: "We are removing a small number of jobs in our head office in sp...
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