The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has ordered the Eastern Cape education department to pay eight teachers more than half-a-million rand in benefits.The teachers lodged a complaint with the council after the department “unfairly” terminated their rural incentive on July 31 2019 while their colleagues continued receiving it.
A short picket at the Provincial Hospital in Gqeberha was meant to set the stage for a national march next week by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu).