The Labour Appeal Court has ruled that employees can be dismissed for carrying weapons during a strike and it is reasonable to expect them to know that this is a dismissible offence The Labour Appeal Court (LAC) recently confirmed that it is fair to dismiss employees who carry weapons during a strike and that employers can reasonably expect employees to know that having dangerous weapons at work (or during a strike) is unacceptable and a dismissible offence.
Avoid complacency in business rescue retrenchments
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Companies in business rescue have plenty of worries to preoccupy them but legal challenges over retrenchments are not usually at the top of the list. After all, such companies are insulated from legal action – including claims from employees – through the moratorium on legal proceedings provided for in section 133 of the Companies Act, 2008.
Nehawu KZN won’t campaign for ANC in upcoming elections over workers’ salaries The union said if government failed to act, it would proceed with its plan of not campaigning for the African National Congress during the local government elections later this year. FILE: A vendor sells Nehawu hats. Picture: Christa Eybers/Eyewitness News.
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DURBAN - The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday said it would use its upcoming provincial congress to strategise on how it would lobby national government to increase workers’ salaries.
The three-day congress is expected to commence on Tuesday.
The Eastern Cape Department of Health has been ordered to immediately reinstate the CEO of Fort England Hospital, Dr Roger Walsh, after the Labour Appeal Court found he had been dismissed to allow the department to escape liability for illegal union behaviour at the facility.
“A court cannot permit anarchy to be rewarded and couch it as being justified in the name of the public interest. That is the route to the destruction of constitutional governance,” Judge Dennis Davis wrote in his Labour Appeal Court judgment.
During his tenure, the former superintendent-general of the Eastern Cape Department of Health, Dr Thobile Mbengashe, had removed the CEOs of the Livingstone, Dora Nginza and Elizabeth Donkin hospitals after they fell out with the unions. Mbengashe resigned from his position in late 2020, but was appointed as a consultant in the office of Premier Oscar Mabuyane. Disciplinary proceedings have been instituted against him for his role in the controversial procurement o
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