The 130 City of Joburg employees whose contracts were terminated are taking the municipality to the labour court again. This time they are seeking permanent relief.
Bargaining Council commissioner Joseph Mphaphuli said the original contracts were meant to expire at the end of April, thus ruling out the possibility that they were unfairly dismissed as the term had not yet expired.
Contracts for political staff are usually attached to the term of office of the political head and generally are not longer than five years.
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