Resigning or giving notice while on annual, sick, maternity, family responsibility or parental leave.
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Resignation and Notice Periods
Can an employee give a longer period of notice than contractually required?
24-Hour Notices
What recourse does employers have against employees who give 24 hours notice?
Theft Cases: Proceed with Caution
Sympathy to an employee accused of theft may prove costly.
Resignations with immediate effect – Employer remedies?
An employee is entitled, at any time in a employment relationship, to resign and walk away from the employer.
Can an employee resign by e-mail or SMS?
Can an employee resign from a job by email where the employment contract requires resignations to be in writing? The question has interesting implications for how people communicate with each other....
Loophole employees were using to dodge disciplinary hearings are now closed
Employees due to appear in disciplinary hearings have been exploiting a legal loop that allowed them to walk away without having answered to charges of misconduct. It is an increasingly frequent...
Can an employee resign and then a week or so later withdraw the resignation?
As a general principle an employee cannot retract his or her resignation without the employer’s consent. If an employee can show that the employer failed to accept his resignation he can withdraw...
Can an employee take leave after giving notice?
This question is not easy to answer or to explain. It can be confusing unless the provisions of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) are very carefully read and considered. Can an employee...
Can an employer discipline an employee who has resigned?
It is often heard that employers have issues around employees who resign. It reminds of the Labour Court case - Lottering and Others v Stellenbosch Municipality,(C159/2010) [2010] ZALC 67; [2010] 12...
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