City to pay thousands for unfair dismissal of shop stewards

Imogen Vollenhoven
09 September 2013

City of Cape Town has been ordered to pay thousands of Rands in compensation this is in regards with the unfair dismissal of Samwu shop stewards. 

Samwu Metro Regional Secretary Mikel Khumalo has called for the city to settle outstanding disputes to avoid wasteful expenditure of rate payers money in compensation for the unfair dismissals and all that has fallen on deaf ears. 

Khumalo said that the City Of Cape Town has not adhered to their call to settle when they made noise about this issue where their shop stewards are being targeted.

“They were also charged left, right and centre and therefore leading to some of the dismissals and we have been asking the City of Cape Town to come to the table and settle,” added Khumalo.

He furthermore said that as a result of the City’s choice to not listen, they proceeded to take the matter to arbitration resulting in the dispute that they City has been ordered to pay thousands of rands for having dismissed these shop stewards.