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Constitutional Court’s Take on Retrenchment Procedures: What Employers Need to Know
Constitutional Court clarifies retrenchment procedures, outlining key insights for employers under the LRA.
Help Yourself: Deregulate Unproductive Labour Law
A new book, Help Yourself South Africa, describes how employers, employees and the unemployed can deregulate labour law by contract to a productive, free labour market.
Foreign Employers Cannot Escape SA Labour Law
South African labour law strongly protects people employed in South Africa. Furthermore, our courts do not easily give up jurisdiction to foreign courts.
Do SA labour laws apply to foreign nationals?
The recent raids on businesses employing illegal foreign nationals in Cape Town underscores the Department of Labour's mission to ensure that employers comply with labour legislation as it relates...
Can an employer retrench a fix-term employee?
Employers have the right to retrench employees. However, it is completely different when it comes to an employee that is on a fixed-term contract of employment. A fixed-term employee cannot just be...
Dealing with out-of-office misconduct
Can an employer dismiss an employee for out-of-office misconduct? Is dismissal justified? The answer to that question is “Yes”. An employee could be dismissed for misconduct outside the...
The Difference between Absenteeism, Abscondment and Desertion
Many employers get confused between absenteeism, abscondment and desertion in the workplace, which causes them to deal with it incorrectly. All of them has to do with some form of “absenteeism”, but...
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