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News24 reports that the City of Johannesburg has won another case in its battle with a group of workers over the "legality" of their employment contract conversion.
On Tuesday, the Labour Court ruled against the group of workers, who were represented by the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu). Judge Andre van Niekerk struck the application off the roll, saying that the Labour Court had no jurisdiction to provide the workers the relief requested. The 130 Joburg staffers served their last day as employees of the City on Friday last week as their contracts officially ended on 30 April. The group had initially been hired as contract workers, employed as support staff for political appointees. The ANC, in February 2021, months before losing power in the City, converted the contracts to permanent by way of a motion through the mayoral committee. The DA-led coalition government said this process had been unlawful and in February 2022 a motion reversed the contract conversions. Last week, Samwu asked the Labour Court to consider the unlawfulness of the City in reversing the conversions. It pleaded for an order that the previous ANC resolution to convert the contracts was legal. Van Niekerk said the union had failed to prove, in terms of the Labour Relations Act, on what basis the court could rule on unlawfulness. He said the workers were seeking relief on matters "that are not regulated in the LRA or any legislation that confers jurisdiction of this court".
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Zintle Mahlati at News24
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