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

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

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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...

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...

I too frequently receive frantic requests from employers to help them get rid of an employee at all costs. In the midst of their panic...

Every employer and every employee has the right to expect that the other is trustworthy...

What rights do employers have to discipline employees for misconduct perpetrated outside the workplace?...

It has become a practice by employers to insert automatic termination clauses into employment contracts for reasons including the following:

A disciplinary warning is an oral or written statement made by an employer informing the employee that his/her conduct or performance...

Employers frequently suspect that serious misconduct has occurred but are unable to prove which employee or employees are responsible...

South Africa’s Labour Relations Act of 1956 was replaced soon after the transition of government in the mid 1990s...