Fin24 reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) intends to ask the Public Protector to investigate whether the Road Accident Fund (RAF) is guilty of violating the Protection of Personal Information Act.
The union’s allegation relates to the fact that computers have been attached and removed by sheriffs of the court at the headquarters of the RAF, thereby putting the privacy and confidentiality of “millions of citizens at risk”. In a statement on Saturday, Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim reacted to an earlier statement issued by the RAF, in which the organisation called the union’s comments that the fund was in disarray “ludicrous”. The union said the RAF had a nerve to describe its demands for a living wage as being “unreasonable” and further alleged that the RAF “arbitrarily suspended the bargaining council without consulting workers”. On Friday, Numsa workers took to the streets to air their grievances about the RAF and handed over a memorandum of demands to the Department of Transport. Numsa claimed that at least 1,500 of workers at RAF branches countrywide were on strike, as the fund was “in turmoil”.
- Read this report by Liesl Peyper in full at Fin24
- See too, Numsa urges Mildred Oliphant to intervene in RAF impasse, at SABC News
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