Female pastor successful in constructive dismissal claim – The Mail & Guardian

Female pastor successful in constructive dismissal claim – The Mail & Guardian

In Makombe vs Cape Conference of the Seventh Day Adventists and Others, the Labour Court found that a pastor employed by the Cape Conference of Seventh Day Adventists (Cape Conference) had been constructively dismissed. The claim arose in circumstances where the congregants refused to accept her, as a female pastor, and where she was exposed to a persistently hostile working environment. Initially, the pastor rendered chaplaincy services to stud…