Don’t Charge Employees Without Proof of Misconduct
Labour law heavily protects employees from unfair dismissal. Section 188 of the LRA effectively provides that a dismissal will be unfair...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Apr 29
- 3 min
Confessions Not Always Irrefutable
While it is understandable that some employers assume that employees who confess to misconduct can be automatically fired...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Apr 22
- 4 min
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...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Dec 11, 2023
- 4 min
Entrap employees at your peril
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...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Nov 20, 2023
- 4 min
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...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Sep 4, 2023
- 3 min
Contractor Takeovers
Important labour legislation applies to circumstances where a business or part thereof is transferred by one employer to another as...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Aug 28, 2023
- 3 min
Strikes are a symptom of discord
The Cape Town taxi strike created severe harm to employers, employees and the taxi industry alike...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Aug 23, 2023
- 3 min
Beware Of Default Awards
If an employer fails to attend an arbitration hearing the CCMA has the power to issue a default award in favour of the employee...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Jul 17, 2023
- 3 min
Beware mistreating undocumented foreigners
The ability to get away with breaking the law has encouraged many employers to mistreat undocumented foreign people employed by them...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Jul 10, 2023
- 3 min
Failure to promote employees can be unfair
The Labour Relations Act (LRA) provides for employees who have been passed over for promotion to lodge an unfair labour practice dispute...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Jun 7, 2023
- 3 min
Destruction of trust relationship cannot be assumed.
Every employer and every employee has the right to expect that the other is trustworthy...
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Ivan Israelstam
- May 29, 2023
- 3 min
Don’t mess with pregnant employees
South African law provides heavy protection for pregnant employees, and does so via numerous pieces of legislation. Included in this...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Mar 6, 2023
- 3 min
The validity of prior warnings is a vexed issue.
A disciplinary warning is an oral or written statement made by an employer informing the employee that his/her conduct or performance...
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Ivan Israelstam
- Feb 13, 2023
- 3 min
Employees who blow the whistle are protected
The Protected Disclosures Act no. 26 of 2000 (PDA) protects employees from reprisals as a result of having blown the whistle on the...
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Danielle Geldenhuys
- Aug 12, 2022
- 1 min
Teachers’ right to strike: a comparative study of ILO standards and South African law
Publisher’s summary: “Prior to 1994, black teachers in South Africa were denied the right to strike. This left them vulnerable to...
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