Court blow for workers

Thousands of workers retrenched by the Edcon group in 2013 and 2014 have had their hopes of reinstatement dashed by the Constitutional Court. On Friday the court ruled that a failure to follow procedure did not invalidate their dismissals.The law stipulates that an employer undertaking large-scale retrenchments only do so 60 days after inviting employee representatives to a consultation about the impending retrenchments.