Ivan Israelstam Sep 23 min readEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAWInvestigation is an art and a science.Employers often fail to investigate allegations of misconduct or poor performance properly because they are busy, because of feelings of...
Ivan Israelstam Dec 11, 20234 min readEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAWEntrap employees at your perilSection 188 of the LRA provides, in effect, that the employer is assumed, from the outset of an arbitration hearing or court case, to be...
Ivan Israelstam Sep 18, 20234 min readEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAWDeal with misconduct expeditiouslyThe 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...
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Danielle GeldenhuysAug 29, 20221 min readLAW BOOKS FOR SALEGrogan, John. Dismissal. – 4th ed. – Juta, 2022Publisher’s summary: “Dismissal remains the most thorough and comprehensive work available on a problem that confronts employers, lawyers...