The respondent was employed on a fixed term contract basis by the appellant.
The appellant was arrested by the police in relation to some criminal charges. He stopped reporting for duty as a consequence of his arrest.
The contract of employment which was a fixed term contract expired and the appellant did not renew it.
When the respondent eventually reported for duty, he argued that the employer had unlawfully terminated his contract of employment as he had a legitimate expectation to have his contract renewed and further the employer had employed someone in his stead. More
The brief history of this matter is that the respondent was employed as a chief security officer from August 2008 to 13 August 2015. He was suspended and dismissed from work on charges of misconduct. It is alleged that he failed to control illegal panning and it was alleged that he also failed to execute his major duty of safeguarding the company assets by allowing illegal panning.
The respondent appealed to the arbitrator alleging unfair dismissal. More
This is an appeal against the decision of the respondent’s appeals officer, who upheld the appellant’s dismissal from the respondent’s employment. More
This is an appeal against an arbitral award handed down on 7 March 2014, in terms of which the dismissal of the respondent from the employment of the appellant was held to be unlawful.
The background to the matter is that the Respondent was employed by the Appellant as a security guard. On 7 October 2012, he was on duty at the Kingdom Bank 1st Street ATM machine, when the machine was tampered with by one of the customers. The incident led to the Respondent facing charges of gross incompetence, inefficiency and negligence, in terms of the National Employment Council... More
is an appeal at the instance of the appellant employer against the decision of the arbitrator where he ruled that the appellant casualised labour by employing the respondent for a stretch of nine years on renewable fixed term contracts. More
This matter has a sad history of dragging back and forth since 2014 with the parties engaged in a series of applications and counter applications but the merits of the matter not being dealt with.
Finally on 17 March 2015 the parties agreed that they had haggled over the matter for long enough and now wanted finality of the matter on the merits. This led to the parties submitting on the merits of the appeal at employee’s instance which is the main matter on the case. Judgment was reserved from 23 March 2015 a date which parties agreed they would... More
