ANA reports that the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) said on Monday that it was mulling over strike action at the Department of Justice over concerns about non-compliance with occupational health and safety (OHS) standards at some of the buildings occupied by the department.  

Indicating that its demands had been “perpetually ignored”, the union advised that last year it had received a certificate to strike and was now considering serving the employer with a notice of strike action.  Problems at the offices of the Master of the High Court in Marshal Street in Johannesburg and the filing offices in both Johannesburg and Cape Town were singled out.  “If the employer is to avert the strike action, then the issues raised must be addressed with immediate effect,” the union warned.  Nehawu said it was also seeking, among several other demands, that representatives of the department at the bargaining chamber be changed and a senior person be immediately appointed.  All vacant posts must be filled and all contract employees who had been with the department for more than three months must be deemed permanently employed, the union said.

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