Nehawu wins case against against Public Works Department
By Ntombi Nkosi
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Johannesburg â The National Education, Health and Allied Workersâ Union (Nehawu) wants to intensify its fight against employers who flout rules and treat workers with sheer disregard.
This comes after the union won a case of unfair dismissal of its members at the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI).
Nehawu national spokesperson Khaya Xaba said members were employed by the department for many years on contract, which was renewed each year by the department.
He said in October 2019 they were served with another contract extension which was to remain effective from October to December 2019.
“As far as cooperation was concerned, we couldn’t have asked for a better day,” said Wynand Engelbrecht on the response to the fire that broke out at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital on Friday, 16 April.
Engelbrecht worked as the City of Johannesburg’s fire chief in Midrand and also served as a former force commander in Sandton. Three years ago, he launched Fire Ops, a small private firefighting brigade that operates in a number of Johannesburg areas.
Fire Ops leaders heard of the fire at Charlotte Maxeke on social media and sent three of their vehicles, which are smaller than the usual fire engine but have high-tech equipment, to help.
Rorisang Kgosana Non-compliance of occupational health and safety is to blame for the deplorable state of Gauteng s hospitals, said the health union. Fires reignited at Charlotte Maxeke hospital in Johannesburg on Saturday 17 April 2021. Picture: Twitter/@GautengHealth The state of Gauteng public hospitals has been “deplorable” for years, with previous cases of hospital fires clearly showing that there is no accountability for non-compliance with occupational health and safety standards, said the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu). Their statement comes after about 400 patients at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital urgently had to be evacuated to other facilities, due to a blaze at the health facility at the weekend. The fire started on Friday night and continued
ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule will not be stepping aside voluntarily when the ANC’s deadline to do so passes at the end of the month, creating the possibility that he will have to be taken through a protracted process that would buy him even more time in office.
The Pretoria High Court this week dismissed axed Gauteng health MEC Bandile Masuku’s application to overturn the findings against him by the Special Investigating Unit. However, far from being defeated, Masuku was in high spirits, saying the fact that the court had ruled that he had committed no crime had quashed insinuations that he was corrupt and engaged in nepotism.
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