New earnings threshold in terms of Basic Conditions of Employment Act

Read the 2024 Case Law Summaries.

The article has summaries of the latest Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal judgments from the month of December. Read now!

A selection of references from the December 2024 issues of the Lexinfo Employment and Labour Law Alert.

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

The article has summaries of the latest Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal judgments from the month of November. Read now!

Click on the file here below to view the summaries of the judgments handed down by the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal...

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

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

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

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...

If an employer fails to attend an arbitration hearing the CCMA has the power to issue a default award in favour of the employee...

It is common for employers to try to avoid employing employees directly and often prefer to use alternative and temporary resources such...

Schedule 8 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA) states, in effect, that the employer should conduct an investigation and allow the employee ...

Angry employers too often fire employees on the spot for having broken workplace rules, or for doing poor work...