Missing CCMA records a common headache for courts

Two recent Constitutional Court judgments have shone the spotlight on the persistent problem faced by labour courts where they are asked to review arbitration proceedings but the records have gone missing. In one of the judgments last month‚ the Constitutional Court remarked that incomplete‚ patched-up records caused by faulty mechanical equipment or lost tape recordings in the Commission for Conciliation‚ Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) were not uncommon.