NEDBANK SD EMPLOYEE FIRED FOR E412 000 LOSS

MBABANE – She was reportedly going through an emotionally energy sapping period as a result of her divorce proceedings which resulted in her being severely depressed and she has now lost her job.

This is the poignant story of a Nedbank Swaziland employee who has been dismissed from work for gross negligence, which resulted in the bank losing over E412 000 through an alleged cybercrime.

Sylvia Williamson was dismissed after appearing before a disciplinary hearing but she successfully appealed the decision of the chairman.
She had worked for the bank  for close to 20 years. The chairman of the appeal, Musa Hlophe, overturned the dismissal and replaced it with a final written warning.

This, however, did not go down well with the management of the bank as it declined to accept Hlophe’s recommendations and findings but instead ordered that the sanction of dismissal, should stand.
In overturning the dismissal, Hlophe recommended that the bank should consider its decision of dismissing Williamson.

“At the time of committing this unfortunate act of gross negligence, she was going through an emotionally and energy sapping period as a result of her divorce proceedings which were both acrimonious and excruciating in her life as well as being stressed because of the way her first lawyer had betrayed her by colluding with her husband’s attorney in order that she could lose the case,” noted Hlophe.

During the initial hearing, Williamson mitigated that this incident happened on a day when she had gone to see her new attorney.
The initial attorney was reportedly unwilling to release the divorce file to the new lawyer, claiming payment of E30 000, notwithstanding the fact that Williamson’s husband had admitted to allegedly having bribed him with E40 000.

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