SADTU Teachers at Work, with logo, smaller.png 19 November 2016 Non-payment of Teachers' Salaries SADTU in the Eastern Cape Launches Court Application to Force Payment of Salaries to Educators The South African Democratic Teachers Union has launched an urgent application in the Labour Court in Port Elizabeth to be heard on 24th November 2016 to force the Eastern Cape Department of Education to process the payment of salaries of educators. This follows numerous attempts by SADTU to reason with both the MEC and the Acting HoD to attend to the payment of salaries of educators. One educator has not been paid her salary since February when she was appointed. This educator and many others have been reduced to beggars and live on handouts whilst rendering a service to the Department. This is while the MEC and his Acting HoD receive their salaries every month without fail despite the MEC having declared in public that he is not sure who runs the Department. In addition to ensuring the payment of salaries of all educators who have not been paid since their appointments, SADTU seeks an order declaring that every educator who is appointed must be paid her or his salary within 30 days of assumption of duty. This we believe will provide educators with the necessary effective mechanism to commit either the MEC or HoD to contempt should they not do their work as it is the case now. SADTU has taken this drastic action to completely eliminate the abuse and indignity that educators who are newly appointed suffer at the hands of the department. We once more call upon the MEC and his HoD to take urgent steps to resolve all other salary related issues of educators including processing applications for rural allowances for educators, housing allowances, the 1% pay progression and the payment of leave gratuities for those who have retired. We also call upon the MEC and his HoD to stop the abuse of educators by unlawfully withholding their salaries and/or unlawfully terminating their services. We shall not fold our arms and watch as this department continues to disregard laws, policies and the rights of our members and educators in general. We will not hesitate to launch further legal action to force the MEC and his HoD to comply with the law and do their work. Issued by: SADTU Eastern Cape Provincial Task Team For enquiries contact Provincial Administrators: Sindisile Zamisa, 060 587 5786 Chris Mdingi, 060 583 4462 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14472 (20161119) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000001d242eb%2438a4fc10%24a9eef430%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
