Payback time for workers fired from Luxor Paints
1 Feb 2021
Khongelani Hlungwani is among the 181 Luxor Paints employees who were dismissed in 2018 but in whose favour the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration has ruled. (Magnificent Mndebele)
After an arbitration process that has taken more than two years to complete, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) has ordered the reinstatement of 178 workers who had been fired from a paint manufacturing company in 2018. In addition, the workers were awarded back pay of about R38.2 million.
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The company dismissed 181 workers, but only 178 will return to work as two have passed away and the other worker was sick when he was fired. He wasn’t part of the process that challenged the dismissal and he doesn’t want to go back. “When I saw that we won, I was over the moon and I am sure that this feeling is mutual for the other dismissed workers,” said Khongelani Hlungwani, 33.
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