Labour Registrar Lehlohonolo Molefe says the bodies aren't complying with financial management requirements.
JOHANNESBURG - Labour Registrar Lehlohonolo Molefe has told Eyewitness News his office is concerned about non-compliance with financial management in trade unions and employers’ bodies in the country.
He has explained that it was the foremost issue that comes up when the registrar’s office receives complaints and financial statements.
Molefe was speaking to Eyewitness News about the state of the country’s labour organisations, which are increasingly involved in scandals leading to splinters, leadership battles and infighting.
The Labour Relations Act requires that every registered trade union and employers’ organisation must provide to the registrar with a certified copy of an auditor’s reports and financial statements on an annual basis.
However, some trade unions and employers’ organisations simply do not comply with this regulation, with some leaders facing accusations of self-enrichment at the expense of workers. When they do, Molefe said, the state of finances revealed several irregularities.
"There seems to be a big problem with financial management. There is quite a lot of things that we feel could be done better so that management of the finances of workers’ money can be accounted for".
Three trade unions have been placed under administration over the past five years for failing to comply with the regulations.
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