PPC loses appeal application on forensic report disclosure
The labour court says PPC has no basis for refusing to hand over a top-secret forensic investigative report
PPC has lost its application for leave to appeal against a labour court ruling that it hand over a top-secret forensic report, which its former head of corporate affairs alleges contains details of who is responsible for leaking market-sensitive information to the media in 2017.
The cement maker applied for leave to appeal against a February labour court ruling that it hand over a forensic investigative report to Siobhan McCarthy, PPC’s former head of corporate affairs, which relates to a protected disclosure she made against former CFO Tryphosa Ramano. McCarthy has been embroiled in several legal disputes with PPC ever since the company dismissed her in November 2018 in a process she argues was initiated in retaliation for blowing the whistle on Ramano, who she has alleged was behind the reported media leaks...
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