Delta Dairies dragged to court over unpaid salaries
Friday, July 25, 2014
Delta Dairies
As financial woes for the first citizen owned milk-processing plant worsen, on Wednesday, the workers took to the Industrial Court after having gone without salaries for the past two months.
In an interim ruling issued by Justice Tebogo Maruping at the Industrial court, Delta Dairies has been ordered to appear in court next Tuesday to argue its case, failure to do so the company would have to settle the outstanding P661,545.09 salaries by July 31, 2014.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...