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Bowman Gilfillan partners with employee benefits specialists
The partners of Hunter Law, a Johannesburg-based practice specialising in employee benefits and financial services, have joined Bowman Gilfillan, one of South Africa’s premier corporate law firms, with effect from 1st October 2011.
Retaining diversity in a cost cutting environment by Karen Fulton
With transformation being one of the key strategic imperatives of every South African business is it possible for employers to consider race when selecting employees to be retrenched?
LABOUR LINGO
POPIA, EEA, COIDA, OHSA.......Huh? South African labour law is highly regulated and we employment lawyers often speak in acronyms when it comes to labour legislation. This article contains a simple layman's guide to some of the labour legislation lingo that lawyers use.
AT LAST: AN END TO DUAL CAUSES OF ACTION IN PUBLIC SECTOR DISMISSALS
The now repealed 1956 Labour Relations Act (1956 LRA) did not protect State employees. Separate legislation governed the employment relationship between the State and its workforce, the terms of which were not as favourable as the protection extended to employees by the 1956 LRA.