Avis to pay R1m for unfairly firing manager embroiled in office feud

Avis should have tried much harder to resolve a row over commissions that set two managers at each other’s throats, a judge has ruled.

Now the car leasing giant, whose advertising slogan is “We try harder”, has to pay compensation of nearly R1m after it unfairly fired one of them.

The labour appeal court in Johannesburg dismissed an appeal by Avis Fleet against an earlier labour court ruling in favour of Susan van Dyk...