Workforce transformation affects all aspects of business and companies must plan for the impact it is having and will continue to have on operations. Nicol Myburgh, Head of the HR Business Unit at CRS Technologies, says the evolving business landscape means companies must start thinking now about...

Defining Employee Engagement Employee Engagement can fundamentally be described as the relationship between an organisation and its employees. The importance of understanding the nature of this relationship can’t be overstated as employee engagement strategies have been proven to; reduce...

BY Ivan Israelstam, Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. He may be contacted on 0828522973 or on e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Employees facing disciplinary hearings are entitled to many rights...

BY lvan lsraelstam, Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. He may be contacted on 0828522973 or on e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The Protected Disclosures Act no. 26 of 2000 (PDA) protects employees from...

Shortcut to High Court makes CCMA and Labour Court redundant!! BY lvan lsraelstam, Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. He may be contacted on (011) 888-7944 or 0828522973 or on e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view...

BY lvanlsraelstam, Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. He may be contacted on (011) 888-7944 or 0828522973 or on e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Where employees cause damage to property or persons in the...

BY lvan lsraelstam, Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. He may be contacted on (011)888-7944 or 0828522973 or on e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. It quite often happens that an employer loses a CCMA case...

Section 23(1) of the Constitution of South Africa provides that “Everyone has the right to fair labour practices.” This would mean that both employees and employers should have the right to fair labour practices and should be able to sue each other at the CCMA for breaching such rights. However,...

South African law is full of legal terminology, much of which is difficult for lay people to understand. While each statute contains a set of definitions to aid the understanding of the reader, these definitions seldom cover all the terminology used in the relevant piece of legislation. One of the...

There have been many legal developments in the employment arena lately that employers must take note of to ensure that they can defend challenges at the CCMA or Labour Court. Here are some tips for pre-emptively dealing with some of the new issues as well as some recurring ones. Contracts of...

Pretoria – The Department of Labour has reiterated that private employment agencies are not permitted to charge work seekers any fees for services rendered. This is according to clause 15 of the Employment Service Act 2014, which is still to be promulgated. This emerged as the department and the...

The law does not make signed employment contracts compulsory, but the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) does require employers to inform employees in writing of their particulars of employment. The reason that employers need to put such provisions into the form of a contract rather than...

South African labour law is all about fairness, and internal company processes have to measure up. However, when fairness and operational demands clash, good intentions tend to go out the door. It has been a familiar drum beat in the South African business environment that the cost and effort...

Pretoria - Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant says she is pleased with the promulgation of the Employment Services Act, 2014, which took effect from 9 August 2015, coinciding with Women’s Day in South Africa. “It is significant that this promulgation will enable Public Employment Services to be...

At HRSimplified, we’ve always believed in giving back to the HR community. Over the past few years, we’ve seen countless aspiring HR professionals, especially those just starting their careers, searching for affordable and accessible resources to build their knowledge and skills. In response to...

Where employees are retrenched the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) requires employers to pay the retrenchees severance pay of at least one week’s remuneration per year of completed service. It is stressed that the retrenchees are entitled to such severance pay in addition to their normal...

Engaging to innovate – a white paper on the leadership styles in the pharmaceutical business landscape The white paper, Engaging to innovate: leadership styles in the pharmaceutical business landscape, is now available. With a focus on the unique challenges of the South African business...

BY Ivan Israelstam, Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. He may be contacted on (011) 888-7944 or 0828522973 or on e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Web Address: www.labourlawadvice.co.za. The Labour...

by Judith Griessel The amendments to the Employment Equity Act in August 2014 have brought changes to the unfair discrimination dispensation in terms of section 6 of the Act. Most notably was the addition of so called “unequal pay for equal work” provision as a form of unfair discrimination....

Economic and social transformation in South Africa is an evolving and fluid issue, with the rules being written by, and through our actions. The revision of the Code of Good Practice (RCoGP) on B-BBEE is reflective of some of these actions (behaviours) over approximately the past seven years, both...