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The Labour Appeal Court's judgment in Golden Arrow Bus Services (Pty) Ltd v Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration & Others (19 June 2025) is a reminder that winning the...

The recent High Court judgement in Cadac Pension Fund and Others v Nash and Others (Gauteng Division, Johannesburg, 16 April 2025) offers important guidance on the role of interim interdicts...

In the Labour Court decision of Henred Freuhauf (Pty) Ltd v Davel & another (2011) 32 ILJ 618 (LC), Lagrange J held that employers should refrain from drafting overbroad restraints and then expect the court to reformulate it into something more reasonable.

The judgment indeed has far-reaching implications when it pertains to the entitlement of both maternity and paternity leave allocation under the BCEA and as read with the UIF Act.

In its recent decision in Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse v Minister of Transport (CCT 19/22), the Constitutional Court upheld the constitutionality of important provisions...

The purpose of the Employment Equity Act, 55 of 1998, is to achieve equity in the workplace by promoting equal opportunity and fair treatment through the elimination of unfair discrimination...

On 16 April 2020, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs issued a notice which amended several material aspects of the lockdown regulations issued in terms of section 27(2) of the Disaster Management Act, 2002.

Accusations of racism in the workplace are among the most sensitive and volatile issues employers and employees can face. In South Africa, where history, power and inequality remain deeply intertwined with working life, such allegations carry real emotional and legal weight.

This was the question the Labour Appeal Court had to consider in RFS Administrators v Samons and others.

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

The Labour Appeal Court's ("LAC") decision in Sorrell v Petroplan Sub-Saharan Africa (Pty) Ltd has significant implications for cross-border employment arrangements, particularly in the context of temporary.

The most common form of dismissal – as defined under section 186(1)(a) of the Labour Relations Act (LRA) - is one where the employer terminates an employee's employment contract with or without notice.

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.

When it comes to applications to review an arbitration award issued by a CCMA commissioner, common law principles state that the operation of the award is suspended and cannot be enforced until...

On Friday, 28 March 2025, Notice 6052 was published in Government Gazette No. 52388, in terms of which the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources...

Temporary employment service provision, more popularly and colloquially known as "labour broking arrangements", is not a new phenomenon in South Africa.