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Recently the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) purged a number of its executives. But many of those fired have returned to work after the courts ordered them reinstated.
On Tuesday, the Johannesburg Labour Court ordered, by agreement reached between the parties, that Hishaam Emeran (CEO of Prasa Tech), Tebogo Rakau (Chief Security Officer) and Nosipho Damasane (CEO of Prasa Rail) resume work on 15 March.
On 19 February, Prasa Chairperson Leonard Ramatlakane announced that the three executives, along with Group Company Secretary Sandile Dlamini, had been fired after an assessment found that they had “performed below par”. According to the statement, this was done “following a due process”.
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On Tuesday, 2 March, Parliament’s public accounts watchdog struggled to get answers from the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa). In a pattern of less than desirable appearances before the public accounts committee, the committee was left with more questions than answers about the state of the country’s rail agency.
Prasa briefed the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on the agency’s 2019/20 annual report, deviations and investigations conducted by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). This was a follow-up to a meeting held in November with the new Prasa board, which had been appointed a few weeks before the meeting.
Uber drivers in SA want to be independent workers
Uber South Africa has hit back after a local human rights attorney announced that it would be representing Uber drivers in a class action suit.
Most Uber drivers want to work independently and major changes to the Uber App have improved benefits for local drivers Uber South Africa said in response to the recent announcement of pending legal action against the firm.
South African human rights attorneys Mbuyisa Moleele Attorneys, assisted by Leigh Day announced that they will be filing a class action against Uber BV and Uber SA to have drivers declared “employees” in the Johannesburg Labour Court. The move follows a UK Supreme Court victory in which the court ruled that the firm’s drivers in the UK were “workers” in terms of UK labour legislation, and therefore entitled to benefits such as holiday pay.