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

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...

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

Section 188 of the LRA provides, in effect, that the employer is assumed, from the outset of an arbitration hearing or court case, to be...

Every employee who is charged with workplace misconduct has the legal right to challenge all the evidence brought by the employer...

Important labour legislation applies to circumstances where a business or part thereof is transferred by one employer to another as...

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

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

The ability to get away with breaking the law has encouraged many employers to mistreat undocumented foreign people employed by them...

The Labour Relations Act (LRA) provides for employees who have been passed over for promotion to lodge an unfair labour practice dispute...

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...

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

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