Company watchdog head quits after row
Astrid Ludin said the Department of Trade and Industry didn’t give the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) the support it needed in a dispute with the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu)‚ according to a media report. Minister Rob Davies fired back‚ saying Ms Ludin – who announced her resignation as head of CIPC after receiving Mr Davies’s notice of intention to suspend her last week - had failed to take employees along with her in her drive to modernise an organisation wracked by instability, the Business Day reported.The war of words escalated after she said in a message to staff that Mr Davies and his department had failed to support CIPC management against Nehawu protests when a paperless back-office system and automated processing was introduced and when the company watchdog adopted a strong stand against corruption.Mr Davis countered this by describing it as "not an easy labour relations environment” and claiming the met a “certain amount of resistance from Ms Ludin‚ who said I did not have the authority to tell her to do various things”...
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