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City Press reports that, having moved quickly to recruit police into the ranks of the parliamentary protection services, Parliament now has to deal with the consequences.
This because 69 overlooked protection officers have taken the national legislature to the labour court for unfair discrimination. Parliament speedily recruited officers from the SA Police Service (SAPS) in July 2015 to become part of its protection services in a bid to enforce a new rule which provided for disruptive MPs to be forcefully removed from the House. But the hiring of the police officers without parliamentary experience, at better terms and conditions, led to tensions. Now, 69 protection service officers have approached the labour court seeking an order which would force Parliament to remunerate them and provide them with the same terms and conditions of employment as the so-called ‘bouncers’. The officers also want compensation “for having been discriminated against”.
- Read this report by Andisiwe Makinana in full at City Press
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