No leave for Boks games
- a?/-?- ■ ■ - . .reporter.• /-No’. special leave, either 1 Wh, or without, pay, will be ; granted to public servants gelectedr-to), play against the. ’/ Springboks.'. confirmed yesterr : driy-' hy the chairman of ; the State,/Services • Commission . (Dr M.’_C- Probine), who said that the-.policy of hot grant- : ing/special. leave for sports contacts-.-with- South., Africa , had beep}if6rmulated in 1979 > ip jjespbhse’ ; to - the/Gleneagles Agreement. . ?/■ - tS-‘ thej’-proposed Springbok,< ¥<* ?
The policy does : not apply to annual leave, .which may be. taken as a right by any : public servant'subject to .the convenience ; of: the ..depaft- ; merit. concerned, j. ?? ,■..’■ ? Dr Probine, said that the issue had also been discussed with; other/State 'employing ; authorities, and they had indicated that’applications for special leave from their employees .would be considered in /the ■light. of all relevant factors,'including those taken into account ,by the State Services Commission arid the ‘terms /.of. the ; Gleneagles Agreement. I ■ . ■ J ' I- - •
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