Question NW4171 to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
12 December 2023 - NW4171
Buthelezi, Ms SA to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Whether her department is responsible for maintaining a record of the relevant details relating to the number of employees who are currently suspended with pay in each municipality across the Republic; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details?
Reply:
No. The Department is not responsible for maintaining a record of employees in municipalities who are suspended with or without pay.
The powers to appoint municipal personnel and to institute disciplinary proceedings, including suspensions and conditions of suspensions, are vested in municipal councils.
Therefore, the record of suspended municipal personnel are kept by municipalities in their capacity as employers.
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