In 1995 South Africa’s old Labour Relations Act was scrapped and replaced by the Labour Relations Act of 1995 (LRA)...

Investigation of misconduct allegations is a crucial step in legally acceptable disciplinary action and cannot be bypassed. ..

The legal procedures that an employer is required to follow in implementing dismissals for misconduct, retrenchments and poor work...

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

A distinction should be drawn between an interdict and a writ. This is because a writ is issued...

Exceptional employees exist who always manage their own conduct and seldom need to be managed. However, most employees do need to be...

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

What rights do employers have to discipline employees for misconduct perpetrated outside the workplace?...

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

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

Employers frequently suspect that serious misconduct has occurred but are unable to prove which employee or employees are responsible...

New earnings threshold in terms of Basic Conditions of Employment Act

National minimum wage adjusted and reviewed.

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...

South Africa’s Labour Relations Act of 1956 was replaced soon after the transition of government in the mid 1990s...

This book is not an arid reflection on labour law. It is an attempt to initiate a sound understanding of the basic principles of labour...

Publisher’s summary: “Dismissal remains the most thorough and comprehensive work available on a problem that confronts employers, lawyers...