Back on the job after being paid R3m for 4-year leave

Johannesburg - A chief director in government – who was suspended for almost four years on full pay and cost the taxpayer more than R3m without doing any work during that period - is now back on the job, City Press reports.

This follows a protracted disciplinary process that the department of labour – responsible for the country’s labour issues – this week admitted it could have handled better.

Advocate Nkahloleng Phasha, chief director of legal services in the department, sat at home for 40 months earning a monthly salary of around R82 000.