The Education Labour Relations Council ELRC has ordered the Eastern Cape education department to strip a high school teacher of her promotion and instead appoint the candidate originally ranked first by the interview panel.
ELRC commissioner Mxolisi Alex Nozigqwaba made this award on Tuesday after John Kennedy Mkonzi Miya referred an unfair labour dispute to the ELRC.
Nozigqwaba was called on to determine whether an unfair labour practice relating to promotion was committed when the department overturned the interviewing panels recommendation that Miya be promoted and appointed to the departmental head post at Ebenezer Majombozi High School, and instead appointed Yonela Lubelo.
