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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 the recent Labour Court judgment in Solidarity and Others v Department of Correctional Services and Others, the Department of Correctional Services ("DCS") was ordered to take immediate steps to ensure that, instead of taking into account only the national demographics of designated groups when setting employment equity targets at all occupational levels of its workforce, it take into account both national and regional demographics

The recent ruling in Backsports (Pty) Ltd v Motlhanke and Another provides important lessons for employers seeking to enforce restraint of trade clauses. While the judgment raises questions over the enforceability...

Although South African employment legislation seeks to prohibit direct and indirect discrimination in the workplace, the interplay between discrimination...

Our Constitution, directs that we all have the right to freedom of trade.

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

There are currently two types of suspension recognised in our law, precautionary and punitive suspensions.

Section 197 of South Africa's Labour Relations Act, 1995 ("LRA") provides that, if there is a transfer of a business as a going concern, the contracts of employment between the transferor...

In an increasingly competitive business landscape, one of the most common legal tools to protect a company's trade secrets, confidential information, and customer relationships, is a restraint of trade clause.

At the core of any Employer-Employee relationship emanates a common law duty of an Employee to render services to an Employer; however, it happens every so often that the Employer will require the Employee to render services ...

If this is the case, may an employer instead use selection criteria that contain an element of potential subjectivity?

In terms of Section 41(4) of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA), an employee who is dismissed for operational requirements is not entitled to severance...

In light of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's speech on the country's response to the Coronavirus last night, there are a number of new questions that we anticipate will be plaguing employers.

An unfortunate by-product of strike action in South Africa is the common occurrence of unlawful and sometimes violent conduct on the part of certain members ...

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

Any strike action that members of a trade union embark on has to comply with statutory requirements as set out in the Labour Relations Act.

Mr Maas subsequently referred an unfair dismissal dispute to the relevant bargaining council.