Labour laws

Labour laws and disciplinary codes require giving employees an opportunity to make submissions before suspension can take place; instant suspension without such process would be an unfair labour practice.

“How it works is you give the employee an opportunity to make submissions about why they should not be suspended if you are considering to suspend them and depending on what they say, it depends what they say because you have to take into account what they say in their submissions and then you make a decision. Anything other than that is in fact an unfair labour practice, which our law punishes.”