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GroundUp reports that a former senior commissioner at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) has asked the Public Protector (PP) to investigate why an official who tampered with statistics to make the East London office look good was later promoted to a senior case management post.
Caren-Lee Small, in her complaint to the PP, asserted that the promotion of Nonzame Jaxa to a senior case management role in the CCMA’s headquarters in Joburg amounted to “maladministration, unethical practice, and a betrayal of the public trust in the CCMA”. Jaxa was the registrar of the CCMA’s East London regional office when, in 2019, an internal investigation found that she, together with other officials, had tampered with the case management system (CMS) to conceal late decisions by commissioners to boost the office’s performance statistics. She was subsequently demoted and transferred to another office in the Eastern Cape. But Jaxa has since been transferred to CCMA’s Joburg office and appointed as Senior Case Manager, in which role she oversees the same case management system. This involves managing case management officers, processing labour referrals, allocating them to commissioners, and capturing these on the digital CMS.
In response to questions, CCMA director Cameron Morajane said: “We decline to respond to certain questions due to POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act.” However, he went on to state that “the entire process relating to the case management and appointment of the employee in question was conducted in strict accordance with CCMA relevant policies and procedures.”
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sipokazi Fokazi at GroundUp
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