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Court Trips Up Employers That Omit Retrenchment Procdure.

Ivan Israelstam

5 days ago3 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

Court Trips Up Employers That Omit Retrenchment Procdure.

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

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Summaries of Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal Judgments: November 2024

Danielle Geldenhuys

Dec 21 min read

CASE LAW

Summaries of Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal Judgments: November 2024

The article has summaries of the latest Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal judgments from the month of November. Read now!

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Employment and Labour Law Update: November 2024

The Lexinfo Team

Nov 282 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

Employment and Labour Law Update: November 2024

A selection of references from the November 2024 issues of the Lexinfo Employment and Labour Law Alert.

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Summaries of Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal Judgments: October 2024

Danielle Geldenhuys

Nov 31 min read

CASE LAW

Summaries of Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal Judgments: October 2024

Click on the file here below to view the summaries of the judgments handed down by the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal...

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Ivan Israelstam

Sep 183 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

Silence can mean consent!

The Labour Relations Act (LRA) gives the Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court numerous and strong powers to make decisions relating to...

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Don’t Charge Employees Without Proof of Misconduct

Ivan Israelstam

Aug 123 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

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 224 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

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

Oct 30, 20233 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

There are degrees of dishonesty

The law does allow employers to dismiss employees for dishonesty. This is because dishonesty can destroy the ability of the employer...

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Good faith consultation is obligatory for retrenchments

Ivan Israelstam

Oct 23, 20234 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

Good faith consultation is obligatory for retrenchments

The Labour Relations Act (LRA) makes it obligatory for employers that are contemplating retrenchments to first consult about this...

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Ivan Israelstam

Aug 23, 20233 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

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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Labour brokers not a cure all for legal restrictions

Ivan Israelstam

Jul 31, 20233 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

Labour brokers not a cure all for legal restrictions

It is common for employers to try to avoid employing employees directly and often prefer to use alternative and temporary resources such...

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Ignore the audi alteram partem rule at your peril

Ivan Israelstam

Jul 27, 20234 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

Ignore the audi alteram partem rule at your peril

Schedule 8 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA) states, in effect, that the employer should conduct an investigation and allow the employee ...

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Protection of Personal Information: Law and Practice. – 2nd ed.

Danielle Geldenhuys

Jul 3, 20231 min read

LAW BOOKS FOR SALE

Protection of Personal Information: Law and Practice. – 2nd ed.

Burns, Y. and Burger-Smidt, Ahmore. Protection of Personal Information: Law and Practice. – 2nd ed. – LexisNexis, 2023.

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New earnings threshold published in terms of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997

Adami Geldenhuys

Feb 23, 20231 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

New earnings threshold published in terms of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997

New earnings threshold in terms of Basic Conditions of Employment Act

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Beware suspending employees without just cause

Ivan Israelstam

Feb 20, 20233 min read

EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW

Beware suspending employees without just cause

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

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Labour law: an introduction. – Juta, 2022.

Danielle Geldenhuys

Nov 13, 20221 min read

LAW BOOKS FOR SALE

Labour law: an introduction. – Juta, 2022.

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...

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