Letter behind Raletsatsi�s suspension
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Benjamin Raletsatsi
In the letter dated July 30, 2015 Raletsatsi wrote to the PS in the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture, Lewis Malikongwa indicating his dissatisfaction with the termination of staff contracts that went beyond August 31, 2015.
Raletsatsi wrote the letter in response to one written by Malikongwa, which stated that all employees whose fixed term contracts of employment went beyond August should be released from duty as of July 31, 2015. Malikongwa’s letter had further informed Raletsatsi that the affected employees would receive their full terminal benefits comprising of gratuity, accrued annual leave pay and outstanding overtime, if any.
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