nevertheless it is progress another significant effect is that this bill provides for the reporting of disciplinary actions against municipal officials to the mec and then to the minister so that other municipalities are warned against employing managers with poor disciplinary records the reporting time periods however are not consistent and once again the effect is that loopholes arise when we pointed these out in the committee we were told that they could be sorted out through the courts that comment is the comment of people who have never experienced how slowly the courts work