The labour court finds the dismissal of a worker, who evidently sold cocaine on the company's premises and consumed the drug, to be warranted.
A Durban cable company employee who tested positive for cocaine and was captured on CCTV handing a "white substance" to a motorist who then appeared to snort it has ultimately lost his bid to keep his job after the Labour Court overturned an arbitration ruling that had reinstated him.
The case centred on CCTV footage recorded at the premises of Durban-based Aberdale Cables, which showed the employee, identified only as Mervin in the judgment, climbing into a vehicle near the company gate and handing both a cellphone and a white substance, later accepted to be cocaine, to the driver.
According to the evidence before the court, the driver then snorted the substance while seated in the vehicle.
Mervin was subsequently subjected to a urine test a few hours later, which returned a positive result for cocaine.
