When an employer contemplates retrenching employees it is required by the Labour Relations Act (LRA)...

The Labour Relations Act (LRA) gives the Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court numerous and strong powers to make decisions relating to...

A list of events on legal matters in South Africa, including webinars, seminars, conferences...

Labour law heavily protects employees from unfair dismissal. Section 188 of the LRA effectively provides that a dismissal will be unfair...

Conciliation is a process used by the CCMA and bargaining councils to enable the disputing parties to settle the matter amicably without...

Grogan, J. Labour Litigation & Dispute Resolution. - Juta, 2024.

While it is understandable that some employers assume that employees who confess to misconduct can be automatically fired...

The Labour Relations Act (LRA) does not define the meaning of “unfair” but describes “Unfair labour Practice” as “any unfair act...

Despite the fact that the CCMA and Labour Courts judge employers on the fairness of their actions in respect of employees the...

Since 1995 South African employees have had very strong labour law rights. These include, amongst others, the right to join trade unions...

Employee work performance is a key requirement for the operational success of businesses and other workplaces in South africa...

There is a very big and clear difference between a suspension and a dismissal. A dismissal brings the employee’s employment to...

Every employee who is charged with workplace misconduct has the legal right to challenge all the evidence brought by the employer...

The Rustenburg Platinum finding and the Shoprite Checkers finding that I discussed in previous articles show that arbitrators and judges...

The law does allow employers to dismiss employees for dishonesty. This is because dishonesty can destroy the ability of the employer...

The Labour Relations Act (LRA) makes it obligatory for employers that are contemplating retrenchments to first consult about this...

The Labour Relations Act provides for fixed-term employees to have a reasonable expectation of renewal of their contracts at the expiry....

The adage that justice delayed is justice denied applies to labour law in the sense that employers that act too slowly can be found to be...

It is a major challenge for employers to distinguish between employees who are genuinely sick from those who are malingering...