EFF slams Correctional Services for ‘leaving workers in limbo’
Nearly 200 former G4S employees say they were abandoned by DCS after the state takeover of Mangaung Correctional Centre.
The EFF has criticised the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) for ignoring a Labour Court order to rehire nearly 200 former G4S employees at the Mangaung Correctional Centre. The Labour Court ruled on 17 August 2026 that DCS' takeover of the facility constituted a transfer of business under section 197 of the Labour Relations Act, thus entitling the affected former G4S staff to be reabsorbed under DCS.
However, the department has failed to comply with this ruling, leaving the workers "in limbo" with no certainty about their future, warned EFF MP Sam Matlatse. Matlatse had written to the Minister of Correctional Services, Pieter Groenewald, demanding clarity on the department's intentions regarding the reinstatement of the workers.
The Labour Court dismissed DCS' appeal against the earlier judgment, ruling that the state had no reasonable prospects of success and confirming that G4S employees will automatically transfer to DCS under the act.
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