News24 reports that a dispute over claims of religious discrimination between a group of employees and management at a road freight company has had a bitter ending.  

Time Freight CEO Etienne van Ravesteyn on Thursday confirmed that a number of employees had been dismissed following what the company believed was an illegal and unprotected strike.  On Tuesday morning, about 300 staff members gathered outside the company's Durban depot in protest against a manager they believed was religiously discriminating against them.  The manager, they alleged, would not allow the employees to observe their religious beliefs at the work place, but he allegedly wore his traditional religious accessories.  Van Ravesteyn indicated that the disruptions were in direct contravention of a court order issued by the Labour Court on 6 January.  Meantime, Edward Mafadza, CEO of the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Religious‚ Cultural and Linguistic Communities, said the commission would intervene to mediate so as to come up with solutions.

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