Legal Aid South Africa employees and SALAWU members marched to Parliament on Wednesday over workload, understaffing, salaries, and working conditions.
Legal Aid South Africa employees marched to Parliament on Wednesday, warning that crushing workloads, frozen vacancies, and unresolved labour disputes were threatening the quality of legal representation for poor and vulnerable people.
The workers, represented by the South African Lawyers and Allied Workers Union (SALAWU), marched from 11am to hand over a memorandum to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development.
SALAWU 2nd General Deputy Secretary Khayalethu Sibeko said the protest was about more than salaries, and included working conditions, understaffing, retirement age, benefits, and what the union described as the failure of the Legal Aid SA board to deal with longstanding grievances.
"Legal Aid employees are protesting, among others, because of the conditions of employment," Sibeko said.
