FMD shutdown puts 240 Savanna Beef jobs at risk
Roughly 240 workers at Savanna Beef Processors face job uncertainty after a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. This outbreak forced the export abattoir to stop its operations. Chairperson Mecki Schneider stated in a letter dated October 27 that employees on the slaughtering, cooling, deboning, and packing floors are on leave. Operations have come to a complete standstill. Management is expected to decide on employment arrangements for November and December this week.
About 240 workers at Savanna Beef Processors face uncertainty over their jobs and incomes after the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak forced the export abattoir to halt operations. Management is expected to decide their employment arrangements for November and December this week. In an information letter to shareholders and members of the Beef Value Chain Forum dated 27 October, chairperson Mecki Schneider says all employees working on the slaughtering, cooling, deboning and packing floors had been placed on leave, bringing operations to a complete standstill. “A decision must be made in the coming week on the arrangements for approximately 240 employees