South Africa's Amplats says miners return to work after strike ends


  • World
  • Friday, 11 Oct 2013

Miners walk at the end of their shift at the Anglo Platinum's Khuseleka shaft 1 mine in Rustenburg, northwest of Johannesburg, January 15, 2013. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Miners at Anglo American Platinum's operations in South Africa have started to return to work, a spokeswoman said on Friday, after the company clinched a deal with the union to end a near two-week strike over job cuts.

Amplats, as the unit of global miner Anglo American is known, said it would grant "voluntary separation" packages to 3,300 employees it had previously sought to lay off.

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