SowetanLive reports that employees of a famous Italian restaurant in Maboneng are fuming after their employer failed to pay their March salary and is now allegedly ignoring their calls.
According the workers at the Ravioli Contemporary Italian in downtown Johannesburg, they worked in March, but did not get a cent at the end of the month. One of the workers explained: My [manager] said we should apply for government food parcels because the owner of the restaurant does not have money. Everyone is struggling. We’ve been trying to call him and he is not picking up the phone. Our biggest issue is the March salary. We also want to be sure that we will get money from UIF because they were deducting money from us.” She said most of the workers had been forced to borrow money from friends and some were facing evictions as they had failed to pay their rent. UIF spokesperson Makhosonke Buthelezi said the least that any employer could do was to be upfront about the financial situation and inform the workers ahead of time, not at the time they expected to be paid. “Workers should take the matter up with CCMA. I hope CCMA has a way for workers to lodge complaints during the lockdown. The CCMA will mete out a punitive measure equal to the offence,” Buthelezi said. He added that workers could take up the matter for investigation by the department through the 0800 030 007 hotline .
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Penwell Dlamini at SowetanLive
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