A labour dispute involving an Eastern Cape school principal ends with a compensation award. The Employment and Labour Relations Council (ELRC) rules that the Eastern Cape Education Department unfairly excluded a former acting principal from a recruitment process for a principal position, and orders the department to pay R351,553.50.
The ELRC finds that the exclusion was not handled fairly, leading to the compensation directive. The award reflects the council’s view that the matter involved an unfair recruitment process rather than a simple administrative outcome. The order requires the education department to provide financial redress to the affected candidate.
While the available report focuses on the compensation amount and the ELRC’s ruling, it does not detail the department’s specific defence or the broader recruitment timelines, so those elements are not independently confirmed here.
