This is an appeal against a determination by the Chairperson of the Appeals Committee which determination was handed down on 15 October 2020. The material background facts to the matter are as follows;
The three Respondents in this matter were all employed by the Applicant. They were all separately charged with an act of misconduct namely “gross negligence” under and in terms of the relevant Code of Conduct for the Printing and Packaging Industry. More
This judgment concerns a matter which has a sad and long history of it being dealt with piecemeal in the sense that it has had more than one judgment handed down on it based on its technical niceties of compliance with the rules in one respect or the other. Resultantly the merits of the main appeal have not been attended to yet the matter has been enrolled more than six times since 2012 to date all on technical niceties thus creating unnecessary backlog for the Labour Court. More
The employee filed with the court an application for reinstatement of her appeal which had been struck off for non compliance with the rules. The employer objected to the approach adopted by the employee. It reasoned that the employee had to seek condonation for late filing of appeal if she was now in a position to regularise her papers.
The employee persisted that her understanding of the rules was that she could bring up a reinstatement application. The law is clear in practice direction 3 (a) that once the matter has been struck off it can be resuscitated if the... More
In a judgment No LC/H/255/19 delivered on the 9th August, 2019, I upheld respondent’s point in limine, to the effect that applicant’s appeal was improperly before the Court as applicant had not exhausted the internal remedies provided in terms of section 8(b) of the Labour (National Employment Code of Conduct) Regulations Statutory Instrument 15 of 2006 (THE NATIONAL CODE). Consequently I struck off the appeal for having been prematurely brought before the Court. More
This an application for stay of execution of an arbitral award handed down by Arbitrator E.F. Chitsa. Applicant alleges that pending the appeal lodged with this Court, Respondent’s actions to execute the judgment be stayed. What is interesting to note is that Respondent has partly executed the judgment and Applicant had to offer security which was lodged with Respondent’s legal practitioners. More
