{"id":376529,"date":"2020-02-24T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=376529"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T13:37:20","slug":"spar-employer-ordered-to-pay-r12-million-for-breaking-labour-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/376529\/spar-employer-ordered-to-pay-r12-million-for-breaking-labour-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Spar employer ordered to pay R12 million for breaking labour laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) has granted eight arbitration awards in favour of the Department of Labour against a Spar Franchisee.<\/p>\n<p>The awards compel the franchisee to comply with compliance orders issued and pay all complainants an amount of R 11,935,478, the Department of Labour said in a statement on Monday (24 February).<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows inspections conducted in May 2019 after the Department&#8217;s Inspection and Enforcement Services (IES) received a series of complaints of alleged gross violations of labour laws which were happening at Spar stores across the country.<\/p>\n<p>On investigation, all the stores which happened to be violating the labour laws were found to be owned by the same franchisee.<\/p>\n<p>Ten stores were affected with nine based in Gauteng and one in the North West. Issues raised in terms of labour laws violations included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Failure by the employer to issue employees with contracts;<\/li>\n<li>Long working hours without overtime compensation;<\/li>\n<li>Sunday pay, public holidays and leave not granted according to the law;<\/li>\n<li>The complaints also related to the hiring of illegal foreign nationals; and<\/li>\n<li>Illegal deductions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The inspections were conducted at Spar Orchards, Dely Road, Doornport Spar, Montana Spar, Wierda Spar, Silverton Spar, Zambezi Super Spar, Rietfontein Spar, Silverplace Spar and Safari Spar in Rustenburg.<\/p>\n<p>These outlets employ 565 workers, the Department of Labour said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/375869\/doing-this-one-thing-will-double-your-chance-of-getting-a-job-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doing this one thing will double your chance of getting a job in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) has granted eight arbitration awards in favour of the Department of Labour against a Spar Franchisee.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":353583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26,9838],"class_list":["post-376529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-spar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376537,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376529\/revisions\/376537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}