When the nbc board was asked by the Committee if it sought permission or arrangements from the employees on how to effect the deductions from their salaries, board member Inonge Mainga said the nbc signed the rules with NAPWU, which represented the workers.

nbc's Board Chairperson Lazarus Jacobs and Director General Stanley Similo informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Recourses that the nbc could have handled the employees' strike differently.