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City Press reports that Agilitee SA, the company of self-proclaimed billionaire Mandla Lamba that manufactures electric vehicles, has been ordered to pay more than R750,000 to a senior employee who was dismissed last year.
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) awarded Agilitee SA’s former business development and partnership director Christa Brits an attachment order after she was fired three months into her contract. Speaking on Friday, Brits said she had been fired a month before Christmas without any explanation. Brits started working for Agilitee SA in August and was dismissed along with two of her subordinates three months later. She was supposed to have earned R83,333 a month, along with benefits, but she allegedly never received her full pay or the benefits. “I never received a company car, like they had promised, I had no medical aid or any company benefits ... I had a good package [on paper], and I should have known that it was all too good to be true. But I thought I should hold on [to the job] because it [the company] is such a good initiative,” she said. When she filed an unfair dismissal case, Brits approached trade union Solidarity to represent her at the CCMA. Lamba was not present at the hearings, but was represented by the then CEO, Bonisile Roberts. Roberts later informed the CCMA that she had resigned from Lamba’s company as well.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Julia Madibogo at City Press (subscriber access only)
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