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Earnings Threshold in terms of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997
New earnings threshold in terms of Basic Conditions of Employment Act
Adami Geldenhuys
Mar 101 min read
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2024: Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal Judgments summaries
Read the 2024 Case Law Summaries.
Danielle Geldenhuys
Jan 241 min read
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Employment and Labour Law Update: December 2024
A selection of references from the December 2024 issues of the Lexinfo Employment and Labour Law Alert.
The Lexinfo Team
Jan 52 min read
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Court Trips Up Employers that Omit Retrenchment Procedure.
When an employer contemplates retrenching employees it is required by the Labour Relations Act (LRA)...
Ivan Israelstam
Dec 17, 20243 min read
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Labour law tighrope shaken by invalid rule dismissals.
BY lvan lsraelstam, Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. He may be contacted on (011) 888-7944 or 0828522973 or on...
Danielle Geldenhuys
Nov 25, 20243 min read
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Silence can mean consent!
The Labour Relations Act (LRA) gives the Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court numerous and strong powers to make decisions relating to...
Ivan Israelstam
Sep 18, 20243 min read
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Investigation is an art and a science.
Employers often fail to investigate allegations of misconduct or poor performance properly because they are busy, because of feelings of...
Ivan Israelstam
Sep 2, 20243 min read
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Dismissing union activists can shake the labour law tightrope
The rights of workers to join trade unions and to participate in their activities is heavily protected by the Constitution and by the...
Ivan Israelstam
Aug 26, 20243 min read
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Confessions Not Always Irrefutable
While it is understandable that some employers assume that employees who confess to misconduct can be automatically fired...
Ivan Israelstam
Apr 29, 20243 min read
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The LRA And Unfair Labour Practices
The Labour Relations Act (LRA) does not define the meaning of “unfair” but describes “Unfair labour Practice” as “any unfair act...
Ivan Israelstam
Apr 22, 20244 min read
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Suspend employees with care
There is a very big and clear difference between a suspension and a dismissal. A dismissal brings the employee’s employment to...
Ivan Israelstam
Jan 10, 20244 min read
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Accused employees have the right to challenge the evidence against them
Every employee who is charged with workplace misconduct has the legal right to challenge all the evidence brought by the employer...
Ivan Israelstam
Nov 20, 20234 min read
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Court findings drive employers to drink
The Rustenburg Platinum finding and the Shoprite Checkers finding that I discussed in previous articles show that arbitrators and judges...
Ivan Israelstam
Nov 17, 20233 min read
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There are degrees of dishonesty
The law does allow employers to dismiss employees for dishonesty. This is because dishonesty can destroy the ability of the employer...
Ivan Israelstam
Oct 30, 20233 min read
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Fixed-term employment contracts not always appropriate.
The Labour Relations Act provides for fixed-term employees to have a reasonable expectation of renewal of their contracts at the expiry....
Ivan Israelstam
Oct 4, 20233 min read
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Deal with misconduct expeditiously
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...
Ivan Israelstam
Sep 18, 20234 min read
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Beware firing genuinely sick employees
It is a major challenge for employers to distinguish between employees who are genuinely sick from those who are malingering...
Ivan Israelstam
Sep 12, 20233 min read
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Strikes are a symptom of discord
The Cape Town taxi strike created severe harm to employers, employees and the taxi industry alike...
Ivan Israelstam
Aug 28, 20233 min read
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Labour brokers not a cure all for legal restrictions
It is common for employers to try to avoid employing employees directly and often prefer to use alternative and temporary resources such...
Ivan Israelstam
Jul 31, 20233 min read
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Ignore the audi alteram partem rule at your peril
Schedule 8 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA) states, in effect, that the employer should conduct an investigation and allow the employee ...
Ivan Israelstam
Jul 27, 20234 min read
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