PRIVATE ARBITRATION Where an employer and employee have made no other agreement about resolution of disputes between them, their disputes are generally conciliated and, if not required to go to…
The long-awaited Labour Relations Amendment Act came into effect, in large part, on 1 January 2015. It brought about a number of changes in both individual and collective labour law.…
The question whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor is one which the courts and CCMA have had to consider time and again over many years. The issue…
Imagine that you own an optometry practice located in a busy shopping mall. A fellow tenant of the mall accuses your employee of theft, and the management of the mall…
What can a member or former member of a pension fund do to resolve a dispute with the fund, or with their employer about their participation in the fund? Four…
“But one cannot be happy in a family business, especially when the kids join the company after you have been there for six years and they try everything in their…
Another major change to our employment law is on the way via a new section 188B to be added to the Labour Relations Act. At present, all employees have recourse…
The Labour Relations Act will soon be amended to change the law on fixed term employment (meaning for example employment "for one month", "until X returns from maternity leave", or…