An employment relationship is inherently unequal. The employer dishes out instructions, and the employee is duty-bound to follow those instructions (if they are lawful and reasonable), and in general to…
Employing a key staff member can feel like risky business. They will get to know your clients, your systems, your "tricks of the trade". All well and good: you want…
It happens with some regularity that an employee refers a dismissal dispute to the CCMA, and the employer arrives at the hearing bearing a termination agreement with the employee's signature. In it, the…
As this blog series comes to a close, we have yet to consider the recent changes to the law on part-time employment. Again, the new law applies only to employees…
The Labour Relations Act has long provided for the possibility of what was called (to the dread of many an employee) a "pre-dismissal hearing". This had the effect of a CCMA…
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 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…
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…