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Webber Wentzel Offices

Webber Wentzel
90 RIVONIA ROAD, SANDTON
JOHANNESBURG 2196,
PO BOX 61771, MARSHALLTOWN 2107
South Africa
Visit website 27 11 530 5000 27 11 530 5111

Mr Johan Olivier

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27115305194 [email protected]

Work Department

Employment, Health & Safety Practice

Position

Consultant

Career

Johan is an expert in employment and employee benefits law as well as health and safety. He has extensive experience in corporate restructuring, dealing with collective bargaining cases, strikes, lock outs, discrimination law, disciplinary and litigation proceedings. His expertise extends to employment issues flowing from mergers and acquisitions, workforce reduction programmes, transfers of undertakings and going concerns, harmonisation of employee benefits, cross-border arrangements, retirement funds and medical aid schemes. He also has extensive experience in advising financial service providers on debarment procedures under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAIS).

Education

Higher Diploma in Arbitration, Association of Arbitrators, 1998
LLM (cum laude), Rand Afrikaans University, 1992
LLB, Stellenbosch University, 1986
BA, Stellenbosch University, 1984
Admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa

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South Africa > Employment

(Hall of Fame)

Johan Olivier – Webber Wentzel

At Webber Wentzel, the ‘knowledgeable and experienced‘ team has established expertise in handling a wide spectrum of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, and is well regarded for its strength in advising on employee benefits cases. Kate Collier heads up the practice and is a key contact for workplace health and safety mandates, while the ‘exceptional practitioner‘ Lizle Louw has extensive experience in acting for mining sector entities on collective and individual labour law issues. Andries Kruger handles unfair dismissal disputes, retrenchments, employment contracts, and collective agreements, while Dhevarsha Ramjettan acts on restraint of trade cases. Johan Olivier and Nick Robb have excellent track records in appearing before the Labour Courts and Siya Ngcamu regularly advises on labour law disputes.

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