BusinessLive reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) is referring the Road Accident Fund (RAF) to the Public Protector (PP) and to Parliament, saying the fund could be "mismanaging" motorists’ personal information.  

On Monday, the union said it had filed a complaint with the PP and that it expected to write to Parliament on Wednesday requesting that the fund be looked into.  Litigation and the subsequent attachment of office equipment and computers was putting "the privacy and confidentiality of millions of citizens at risk", said Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim.  Numsa also wants the PP to investigate how legal issues at the fund are affecting day-to-day operations.  The RAF has been technically insolvent since 1981.   Numsa represents about 36% of the RAF’s staff.  More than 800 downed tools last Thursday after wage talks deadlocked.  The employees also complained of huge pay disparities and a lack of supporting equipment.

• Read this report by Karl Gernetzky in full at BusinessLive
• Read too, Numsa lodges complaint against RAF with Public Protector, at The Citizen
• And also, RAF says Numsa strike ‘unreasonable and without merit’, at EWN

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