Employers often fail to investigate allegations of misconduct or poor performance properly because they are busy, because of feelings of...

The rights of workers to join trade unions and to participate in their activities is heavily protected by the Constitution and by the...

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

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

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

The Cape Town taxi strike created severe harm to employers, employees and the taxi industry alike...

It is well known that South Africa’s Constitution, the Equality act and the Employment Equity Act all render racism unlawful...

The code of good practice that regulates the conducting of misconduct dismissal arbitrations increases the obligation on commissioners to...

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

South African law provides heavy protection for pregnant employees, and does so via numerous pieces of legislation. Included in this...

Section 6 of the Employment Equity Act prohibits unfair discrimination against employees on the grounds of disability or illness...

Due to the fact that some employers are unskilled in dealing both effectively and legally with poor performance or misconduct they look...

The purpose of workplace disciplinary hearings is to enable the chairperson of the hearing to hear, from both sides, evidence relating...

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

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

The Protected Disclosures Act no. 26 of 2000 (PDA) protects employees from reprisals as a result of having blown the whistle on the...