New earnings threshold in terms of Basic Conditions of Employment Act

Read the 2024 Case Law Summaries.

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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 ...