Employers are exploiting the climate around undocumented migration to carry out unfair dismissals and unlawful pseudo-retrenchments of foreign nationals, says a labour union for casual workers.
This comes after nearly 100 Malawian nationals who had worked at HarvestFresh in Meyerton, Gauteng, for between five and 15 years left the company with R5,000 payouts after signing mutual separation agreements.
Andile Nyembezi of the Casual Workers Advice Office said: It has become clear to us over the past few weeks that employers are seizing upon the current xenophobic mobilisations to carry out unfair dismissals and unlawful pseudo-retrenchments.
