Staff reporter
Bloemfontein – The employees at Community Safety, Roads, and Transport are up in arms over forced leave imposed by department.
A text sent by IT department instructing employees to take leave from 27 – 31 December 2024, has been received with anger.
STEPUPSANEWS can confirm this instruction is in violation of Determination & Directives On Leave Of Absence In The Public Service.
In terms of paragraph 5.1 of the Determination and Directive on the Leave of Absence issued by the Minister of Public Service and Administration, employees are entitled to annual leave with full pay during each leave cycle of 12 months starting from January of each year.
The meaning of paragraph 5.1 is that an employee with more than 10 years of service is entitled to 30 days annually leave in an annual leave cycle starting from January to December of each year.
Labour Law expert who spoke on condition of anonymity said employees can’t take leave in advance.
“It therefore means that if his leave days are exhausted in 2024 leave cycle, an employee cannot utilize leave credits for 2025 in advance in 2024.
There is also no provision in the Determination and Directive on the Leave of Absence that allows employees to utilize their leave credits of future Annual leave cycle in the current Annual leave cycle (i.e. Utilizing leave days for 2025 cycle in 2024 cycle) The above paragraphs are under Part 4 of the Determination and Directive on the Leave of Absence”
She continued by quoting the determination and directive (leave should be planned and initiated by an employee).
“5.2. Annual leave should be planned and scheduled at least at the start of a leave cycle, i.e. January of each year.”
“5.7. An employee must submit his/her application for annual leave in advance, unless unforeseen circumstances prevent him/her from doing so.”
Furious employees said this is nonsense.
“This is nonsense, this is not going to work at this short notice.
What must we do with plans we have for our leave days with families?”
Another employee said the department is led by clueless people.
“We are led by clueless people, they don’t even read.
How do you expect this department to function optimally when top management does not even know provisions of public service.
They keep on exposing themselves. If they are not charging staff frivolously, they transfer staff without consultation, or worse, dismiss staff for no apparent reason while the department is collapsing”
2024 A GREAT YEAR FOR STEPUPSANEWS
With the year almost setting, and 2025 fast approaching, heartfelt appreciation to communication teams of institutions like Public Service Commission, Auditor General of South Africa, Public Protector of South Africa, DPCI aka HAWKS, and NPA.
To all readers, contributors and sharists, please put your right hand on your heart as we end the year 12 million hits, 100% increase year on year.
Next year, we focus on municipalities.
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There is less to do during festive season so people must take leave and spend more time with their famalies I don’t see a reason why complain when given a chance to go stay at home
What if I have a holiday planned during the 1st school holidays with my kids as it’s affordable than the busy season? Just cause it’s convenient for YOU it doesn’t make convenient for EVERYONE. Look outside the box you live in.
Excellent response
Simply further confirmation of how incompetent out government are.
Why would anyone be surprised?
An issued qualification certificate – and we have been alerted to enough fake ones – says nothing about actual intelligence, ability to reason or apply logic , nor confirm the ability to read for meaning.
The road to failure may be paved with the inability to grasp the fact that decisions may have many unintended consequences, which nobody in our government seems able to grasp.
Good day. I want to know how many leave am I entitled to when I work on Mondays,Wednesdays, Fridays from 08:00-13:00 and on Sundays 07:00-10:00.
We ended up getting used to that. NDPWI is taking our leave every year whether you fill in leave form or not .
What role did the communication teams of institutions like the Public Service Commission, Auditor General of South Africa, Public Protector of South Africa, DPCI (Hawks), and NPA play in the achievements of 2024, and how are they preparing for the challenges of 2025?
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