Labour law, work law, employment law, labour relations, industrial relations or the workplace.
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Like most countries, South Africa continues to suffer under the pandemic. With a delayed vaccine rollout programme, employers are not yet ready to receive employees in the workplace. The Department of Labour published a guideline for employers who want to [...]
Policy does not form part of the employment contract and therefore does not have any contractual or binding effect. But if they are expressly incorporated into the employment contract, they do form part of the contract and are binding. For [...]
The proposed amendments to the Employment Equity Act [EEA] will have the effect of punishing and fining employers who fail to prove on a balance of probabilities that they have complied with certain undefined fairness provisions of the EEA. The [...]
In a labour broking scenario, a temporary employment service (labour broker) employs people who then provide services to a client (person for whom the work is being done). For example, ICT Labour Broker employs Joe Soap (a computer programmer), who [...]
Know, understand and apply the principles for determining the “dismissals” regarded as automatically unfair, in the sense that employers are not able to defend any such “dismissals”. Persons who prove: an employment relationship, a “dismissal” and automatic unfairness are entitled [...]
What are the rights of employees who previously carried out services that have been outsourced? Is there any right to consultation or compensation, do the rules apply to all employees within the jurisdiction? Where services are outsourced, employees' services are [...]
