Weekend Argus reports that the City of Cape Town instituted disciplinary action against no less than 326 of its staff members during the current financial year.
This equates to 1% out of the City’s staff complement of 30,373 permanent employees. The staff members were implicated and charged with various acts of misconduct, among which were negligence, insubordination, misuse of council property, and being absent from work without permission. Only three members are currently on suspension and are receiving their full pay in accordance with the SA Local Bargaining Council’s disciplinary procedure collective agreement. However, municipal managers and senior employees who directly report to the municipal manager are excluded from that agreement. The ANC’s leader of the opposition in the City Council, Banele Majingo, said that given the size of the City of Cape Town and its budget, the number of employees undergoing a disciplinary process sounded large but in reality was not. “Over a period of time, we think this is a fair number,” said Majingo. “We also cannot allow harassment of junior employees who often fall victim majority of time based on their skin colour whilst accounting persons are not touched. If the need arises for a DC process, it must be fair,” he added.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Brandon Nel at Weekend Argus
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