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Independent News reports that a top SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) official who was dismissed after she refused to pay former chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng a R11-million bonus has been reinstated.
The Labour Court found that chief financial controller Maria Campher’s dismissal was procedurally and substantively unfair after she was told that there was "no room" for her in its structure. Judge Portia Nkutha-Nkontwana’s ruled: “The SABC is ordered to reinstate Ms Campher to the same or similar position to the one she occupied before her dismissal and on the same or similar terms and conditions of employment with effect from May 1, 2018.” She ordered the SABC to pay Campher full back pay, as well the costs of the lawsuit. Campher insisted before the court that the true reason for the termination of her contract was because she was seen as an obstacle to the payment of certain bonuses to Motsoeneng. However, according to the CCMA commissioner who had earlier presided over her matter, this was not supported by evidence. Judge Nkutha-Nkontwana accepted Campher’s evidence that had she not queried Motsoeneng’s bonus her contract would not have been prematurely terminated.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Loyiso Sidimba at Independent News
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