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

I too frequently receive frantic requests from employers to help them get rid of an employee at all costs. In the midst of their panic...

It is well known that South Africa’s Constitution, the Equality act and the Employment Equity Act all render racism unlawful...

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...

The code of good practice that regulates the conducting of misconduct dismissal arbitrations increases the obligation on commissioners to...

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Every employer and every employee has the right to expect that the other is trustworthy...

Section 6 of the Employment Equity Act prohibits unfair discrimination against employees on the grounds of disability or illness...

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

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?...

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

Angry employers too often fire employees on the spot for having broken workplace rules, or for doing poor work...

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