INSTEAD of wasting hefty amounts on private lawyers to represent the metro in internal disciplinary cases against its employees, the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality should beef up its legal services department to do the job.
Samwu regional secretary Mqondisi Nodongwe yesterday said the union wanted the metro to stop using private legal firms to handle disciplinary matters.
The union said senior managers, the city’s legal services and labour relations department should hear cases and institute disciplinary procedures themselves.
The department has previously come under fire from councillors who say it is to blame for the metro losing hundreds of thousands of rands through court cases because of incompetent legal advisers.
Before appointing Teboho Motasi as its head in March last year, the department had been without a director since 2011.
Nodongwe said they had raised the issue with acting city manager Johann Mettler last Thursday and that Mettler had committed..
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