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News24 reports that a former Truworths cashier fired for short-changing the company won't be going back to her job at the fashion retailer after the Labour Court found that her dismissal was lawful.
In a groundbreaking judgment penned in Sesotho by acting Judge Smanga Sethene, the court disagreed with the CCMA’s ruling that overturned the company's decision to fire Maphasha Mochekgechekge. According to the judgment, on several occasions when Mochekgechekge cashed in, there would be a discrepancy. When management asked her why the money was short, she apparently used her pregnancy as an excuse. Mochekgechekge continued to cash in short until she was given two warning letters, but that didn't resolve the matter. The woman was fired following a disciplinary hearing. However, she went to the CCMA to contest her dismissal, which ruled in her favour. The CCMA found that the company was unfair in firing her because she was pregnant at the time. It said the company should have taken that into account. But Truworths argued that the CCMA’s decision was unlawful, adding that the commission failed to take evidence into account that the woman was consistent in short-changing the company from 2014 until 2018. The Labour Court found that Mochekgechekge's axing was, in fact, lawful and set aside the CCMA's ruling.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jeanette Chabalala & Tebogo Monama at News24
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