Employee, who was fired for running a loan shark business at work, loses Labour Court appeal

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The dismissal comes after a whistleblower told the employer that a loan shark was operating at the Botanical Gardens during working hours in June 2019.

Employee who was fired for running a loan shark business at work loses Labour Court appeal. File Picture: SuppliedA former Free State National Botanical Gardens employee, who was fired for operating a loan shark business at work,Monapole Daniel Kaweng worked as a specialist machine operator and was also a shop steward before he was found guilty of engaging in an unlawful money-lending scheme at work.

At the CCMA, he said that he had been involved in a stokvel, and not an unlawful money-lending scheme. In 2017, they were joined by a woman who changed the laws of this stokvel and they started loaning money to employees and charged interest.

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