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.Cape Times reports that Acting Labour Court Judge, Veronique Barthus, remarked when dismissing the Western Cape Education Department’s (WCED’s) latest attempt to challenge a ruling that ordered the reinstatement and back-pay of a former Primrose Park Primary teacher that what started as an ill-conceived review application had taken the form of litigation-by-attrition.
The WCED had sought leave to appeal a judgment handed down last month, which dismissed its attempt to overturn an earlier arbitration award in favour of teacher Lee-Ann Snyders. Judge Barthus had, in her previous ruling, found that on the strength of the evidence placed before the arbitrator, his decision fell within the band of reasonableness. She therefore dismissed the WCED’s initial application for review. The teacher who was dismissed on several charges of misconduct by a 2020 disciplinary process had turned to arbitration to challenge her dismissal and succeeded. The arbitrator had rejected evidence by the pupils and found that "there was a propensity of the learners for not telling the truth” concerning the allegations that led to Snyders being removed from her post. In its leave to appeal, the WCED had largely “rehashed its submissions” and failed to show that there was a reasonable prospect that another court would reach a different conclusion, said Judge Barthus.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nicola Daniels at Cape Times
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