The Presidency says the salaries paid to these DGs are due and payable by virtue of labour laws.
The Presidency says government has forked out more than R10 million for Directors General who were placed on suspension with full pay in past couple of years. This was revealed in a written Parliamentary reply from a Democratic Alliance question.
Defence and Military Veterans Director General, Irene Mpolweni is still on suspension since March last year while it took almost a year before former Public Enterprises DG Kgathatso Tlhakudi was axed.The former DG of Public Works and Infrastructure’s suspension was finalised after two years. The DA has expressed concern, saying taxpayers are footing the bill for indefinite suspensions.
The suspensions of DGs which took a couple of months to be resolved were those of the Public Service Commission, Dr Dovhani Mamphiswana andHowever, COSATU disagrees, saying there’s no clause in the labour law stating that employees should be suspended for an indefinite period.
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