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COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER WINS CASE AGAINST ASA- 3 Sep 2010 00:00:00

The Athletics South Africa communications manager Ethel Manyaka will return to work after winning a legal case against the federation's interim administrators at the CCMA who she claims forced her to leave her job.

Manyaka had said that she was pushed into taking indefinite unpaid leave by the ASA earlier this year.



Manyaka was told she could return to work after disciplinary hearings had been completed against suspended board members and employees, and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC), running ASA since last year, handed control of the sport back to the federation.



However, a hearing was previously scheduled at the CCMA offices in Johannesburg in July, but whilst Manyaka presented her case, no representatives of ASA turned up.



But an arbitration committee last week ruled in Manyaka’s favour after it found that she had been ‘unfairly suspended’.



ASA's interim administrators have also been ‘ordered to lift Manyaka's suspension with immediate effect’ and pay her in full for the period during which she did work.



Manyaka will return to the office on this week to continue her duties as an employee of the federation.

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