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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO. 581
DATE OF PUBLICATION: Friday, 18 July 2014
INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 5 of 2014
581. Mr M H Hoosen (DA) to ask the Minister of Home Affairs:
(a) How many employees of his department have undertaken remunerative work
outside their employment in the past three financial years and (b) in each
case, what action has been taken against them?
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REPLY:
(a) The table below indicates employees who applied for permission to do
remunerative work outside their employment over the past three financial
years are as follows.
|Year |Number of employees |
|2011/12 |10 |
|2012/13 |42 |
|2013/14 |59 |
No further action was required against these employees.
The table below indicates employees were also identified through the audit
process as being owners or having interests in certain businesses for which
they had not sought permission. Information for the past three financial
years is as follows.
| Year |Number of employees |
|2011/12 |41 |
|2012/13 |17 |
|2013/14 |23 |
(b) For the 2011/12 financial year the following disciplinary action was
taken against officials found to have performed remunerative work without
permission. All 41 officials were served with Audi alteram partem letters
to respond to the allegation.
No further action was required against six (6) officials, who could either
prove that they had resigned from the business or were no longer in the
employ of the Department. Thirteen (13) officials were issued with written
warnings. Two (2) officials were issued with final written warnings, and
two (2) officials received sanctions of suspension without pay. In eighteen
(18) cases we are still awaiting information from the Departments with whom
business had been conducted to provide relevant evidence which would allow
the Department to take formal disciplinary action against the employees.
For the 2012/13 financial year, the seventeen (17) employees were served
with Audi alteram partem letters to respond to the allegation. In six (6)
cases no further action was required. In ten (10) cases evidence is awaited
from the entities with which business was conducted to provide relevant
evidence which would allow the Department to take formal disciplinary
action against the employees. In one (1) case, formal disciplinary action
will be taken once the employee returns from maternity leave.
For the 2013/14 financial year, the twenty three (23) employees were were
served with Audi alteram partem letters to respond to the allegation. In
five (5) cases no further action is required. Ten (10) employees are being
issued with written warnings. Investigations are underway in respect of
eight (8) employees to determine whether the Department can sustain
disciplinary hearings against them.