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SPTC WORKERS PETITION THEIR BOSSES OVER CHARLES’S DISMISSAL

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MBABANE – Swaziland Post and Telecommunications Corporation (SPTC) staff has petitioned SPTC management regarding the handling of the desciplinary proceedings against dismissed senior manager, Charles Ndlovu.


The employees, through separate bodies, have ‘petitioned’ the Board and management over the disciplinary proceedings which subsequently led to Ndlovu’s dismissal.
Ndlovu was the Sales and Marketing Manager at SPTC. The workers’ bodies are SPTC Staff Association (SPTSA) and SPTC Workers Union (SPTCWU). The two wrote separate letters to the management and Board of the parastatal.


The SPTC Workers Union wrote to the General Manager Corporate Services. Information gathered by this publication was to the effect that the letter was copied to the Managing Director, Petros Dlamini, and to the Board Chairperson, Simon Mthunzi.
SPTC Workers Union Secretary General Mduduzi Zwane confirmed that they wrote a letter to the Acting General Manager Corporate Services.


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“We now fear for our jobs as Charles’s dismissal could be used as a precedent in future should a similar case like the one Charles was implicated in arise. In cases of disciplinary proceedings, the company has laid down procedures, which were not followed and were flouted by management. We are also deeply concerned why the company had to review a decision of its own independent chairman. This clearly shows that management had ulterior motives by suspending Charles and taking him to a disciplinary hearing,” the union said.


When Zwane was asked what the response of management to their letter was, he said: “Their response was not satisfactory at all. Management acknowledged receipt of the letter and told us that it was the employer’s prerogative to dismiss any employer from work. We were appalled by such a response as this means anyone can be fired anytime and anyhow, without following the laid down policies,” he said. 


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In a separate letter, the SPTSA wrote: “We, as the SPTC Staff Association executive, have noted with grave concern the following issues with respect to Charles Ndlovu’s disciplinary hearing, a process which we believe should have come to conclusion. At the very initiation of his suspension from employment pending an investigation that was to be conducted by the employer, we noted that the notice to suspend him was sent to the staff association executive only after the insistence of Charles. We view this as an anomally given that the recognition agreement defines that in the event a member of the executive is to be put on suspension and/or have charges of alleged misconduct preferred against him, it is required of the corporation to give same notice to the member’s association,” reads the letter in part.


The SPTSA further submitted that SPTC elected to ignore it in the letter dated January 19, 2016, a letter which it said speaks about findings of the independent chairman and the opposing stance that the employer adopted by writing to Charles and not copying same to the association.

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