The labour ministry says it is concerned about hostility between staff and management at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). Minister Mildred Oliphant and her deputy Phathekile Holomisa said they were confident the issues would be speedily resolved by an investigation launched into multiple allegations levelled against CCMA director Cameron Morajane and members of his executive committee by the organisation’s staff in Johannesburg. On Wednesday Business Day reported that CCMA staff had submitted a list of grievances to Holomisa, setting the wheels in motion for an internal probe. Dissatisfied workers, who did not want to be named for fear of being victimised, said their complaints submission had run to dozens of pages. Among other things, they had complained about wasteful expenditure, pay disparities and purging. Morajane has been at the helm of the agency since his predecessor, Nerine Kahn, resigned in 2015. Morajane’s suggestion that some of the a...
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