LANGUAGE alert! Sensitive readers should turn the page at this point, given a pithy exchange to be quoted from a labour court matter. The case dealt with workplace sexual harassment and an employee who was sacked because of his behaviour — and his language.Morgan Masemola, who worked for the Southern Sun hotel group, was dismissed by the company after being found guilty of sexual harassment in the workplace. He then referred the matter to the CCMA, where his dismissal was upheld as both procedurally and substantively fair. Finally Masemola turned to the labour court, but a decision delivered last week has given him no joy there either.The person whom Masemola harassed is referred to as D, a woman working for a subcontractor of the hotel group. She had nude pictures of herself on her cellphone and these were taken off her phone while she was at work. Masemola had also obtained nude pictures of D’s cousin K.D discovered that Masemola had the pictures and asked him, via WhatsApp, to de...
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