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Economists predict that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will lead to retrenchments on an unprecedented scale on the back of an already weak economy.

The application of zero tolerance policies has become something that employers, particularly in work environments that require the utmost safety compliance, use to ensure that safety standards are adhered to.

Employers, from large corporations to small to medium entrepreneurs and businesses have had no alternative but to implement short time work, reduce salaries, place Employees on unpaid leave as a no work no pay circumstance...

Whether the termination of an employee's fixed term contract of employment, where such employee earns below the earnings threshold and is employed to perform work of a permanent nature, amounts to an unfair dismissal.

Using muti or traditional preparations to intimidate, scare or threaten a colleague constitutes misconduct and employers have the right to "remove such purveyors of darkness from their environment".

South Africans are in a state of COVID-19 information overload and Employers and Employees alike are finding themselves in circumstances where information is either unreliable or presently...

The South African government's official website indicates that the country has 46.2% of its adult population (over 18 years of age) vaccinated.

If the review application was unsuccessful, the employee would seek to enforce the award.

In a recent Labour Court decision, Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Ltd v Godfrey Makaloi and 2 Others, the complexities of workplace misconduct

Delaying the prosecution of a review application can carry the risk of a court refusing to hear the application.

South African case law is replete with decisions where employees claim that they were unfairly dismissed because their employer failed to renew their fixed-term contracts.

The Labour Court has ruled that workplace complaints do not automatically qualify as protected whistle-blowing under South Africa's Protected Disclosures Act. This judgment examines when employee allegations of impropriety receive legal protection and what factual foundation is required to establish a protected disclosure that shields workers from retaliation.

An incident that occurred on a South African airline flight in December 2024 sparked heated debate on social media and made news headlines.

Employers who suspect that employees are guilty of misconduct often appoint forensic investigators or legal practitioners to investigate whether such misconduct exists.

In the recent South African Labour Appeal Court ("LAC") decision of Total South Africa (Pty) Ltd v Meyer and others, the LAC, in addressing the issue of whether the decision to grant maximum compensation for a substantively...

A recent Constitutional Court judgment is an important reminder to employers that employees must be granted a fair opportunity to ventilate their case at a disciplinary hearing.

The Labour Relations Act ("LRA") distinguishes between what can be termed "large scale retrenchments," regulated by sections 189 and 189A of the LRA...