This news aggregator site highlights South African labour news from a wide range of internet and print sources. Each posting has a synopsis of the source article, together with a link or reference to the original. Postings cover the range of labour related matters from industrial relations to generalist human resources.
News24 reports that the chief director of legal services at the Gauteng health department, Advocate Mpelegeng Lebeloane, has been paid R4.7m since June 2019, despite doing no work.
Lebeloane has been off work following a Public Service Commission (PSC) report on her appointment found irregularities in her transfer from the Department of Water and Sanitation. In written replies to the Gauteng legislature, Health MEC Nomathemba Mokgethi confirmed that Lebeloane was paid R4,681,700 between 1 July 2019 and 30 September 2022. The PSC had recommended that the health department should apply to the Labour Court "without delay" to set aside Lebeloane's transfer to the department. The department made the application to the Labour Court on 18 November 2020, but Lebeloane opposed it. The department went to court again in July and was informed by the registrar that "the matters that are being allocated now are for the year 2023". Mokgethi indicated: "The department wants to see the matter concluded as speedily as possible; however, it remains constrained by the court's processes which are outside the department's control." DA health spokesperson Jack Bloom commented: “This is an enormous sum of money to pay for a botched appointment. It could have paid for 10 senior nurses for a year at our understaffed hospitals. I am appalled that the department's mismanagement has wasted so much money that should be used to provide better care for hospital patients.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tebogo Monama at News24
Get other news reports at the SA Labour News home page