After seven weeks without lectures at DUT, education department intervenes
Deputy Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela is to intervene in a seven-week impasse between Durban University of Technology (DUT) management and staff‚ which has resulted in the academic programme being suspended. Manamela will meet the affected parties at DUT on Tuesday, after the institution implemented a lockout last week. Three labour unions representing disgruntled staff turned to the labour court on Friday in a bid to get the institution’s decision to dock salaries of striking workers salaries overturned. DUT spokesperson Alan Khan said the principle of "no work‚ no pay" was still in place. "The labour unions withdrew the matter."
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