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SowetanLive reports that the City of Joburg has ordered 130 employees whose contracts terminated to return cellphones and laptops issued by the City.
On Friday, Joburg acting group executive director for corporate and shared services Hennie Labuschagne wrote to the affected former employees demanding that they should return the tools of trade by Monday. The 130 were initially employed as political support staff in the city but their contracts were later converted by the previous administration, which was led by the ANC, so that they became permanent employees. Contracts for political staff are usually attached to the term of office of the political head and generally are not longer than five years. On 25 February, the multi-party coalition government led by the DA rescinded the conversion of the contracts from permanent back to fixed-term contracts. According to their original agreements, the contracts expired at the end of April. In his letter of demand, Labuschagne indicated that the employees could be financially liable should they fail to return the devices. He also wrote that the city could report the former employees to authorities for being in possession of the city’s property. But, one former employee said a legal process was still underway, adding that it was premature for the city to demand the devices be returned. In April, Bargaining Council commissioner Joseph Mphaphuli dismissed an application for alleged unfair dismissal. According to Mphaphuli, the contracts of the City of Joburg 130 were to expire at the end of April, thus ruling out the possibility that they were unfairly dismissed.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nomazima Nkosi at SowetanLive
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