Strip searches spark march
RS Fashions' representative, Linda Nxasana, told a handful of Cosatu members who marched to the company's premises on Wednesday that the stripping incident had happened only once.
"The employer is apologising about what happened. It happened only once and [the employer] is promising that this will never happen [again]," she said.
She said the company had agreed to work with Cosatu "so that you can correct us where we are wrong and so that we can treat workers in an acceptable manner".
Cosatu's provincial secretary, Edwin Mkhize, said the company had first denied that workers had been stripped naked, but later admitted it had happened once. "They first denied and then we told them that we have a case because we have an affidavit which has an address of this place," he said.
"We said the way forward is for us to have a meeting with them. There are things that we have identified such as papers on the wall which say that if you have delayed for 15 minutes you will be given a warning. And there is no law that backs that."
Source: The Times