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What legal recourse is available to employees who cannot prove discrimination on a listed ground and can subjective feelings of ill-treatment in the workplace amount to unfair...

Generally, for retrenchments to be lawful in most jurisdictions they must be substantively and procedurally fair.

One of the important amendments to the Labour Relations Act, 1995 ("LRA") which came into effect on 1 January 2015 was the insertion of section 200B into the LRA.

In June 2023, both the World Economic Forum and the Employment Equity Commission released the most recent data on gender pay information in South Africa.

Imagine you employ 10 000 workers across the country. Two of your non-unionised employees posted in a small town are dissatisfied with their work conditions and refer a dispute to the CCMA.

With the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in motion, numerous employers are wanting to impose mandatory vaccination as part of their health and safety protocols. The

Suspension of Employees is a common occurrence in the workplace. Accordingly, Employers should be aware of the correct processes and procedures which must be...

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.

Employee share ownership policies (ESOPs) in the current labour environment are far more than a passing trend.

The best place to start dealing with sick leave abuse as an employer is to understand what the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) states regarding sick leave.

If sheriffs act unreasonably and hastily when executing a writ of execution, they may face adverse costs orders.

The City applied to the Labour Court for an order declaring that DEMAWUSA's members were participating in an unprotected strike and interdicting them from participating in the strike.

Nothing prevents an employer from amending a disciplinary charge before a finding is made provided that the amendment does not add to the complexity or substance of the charges, for example.

He argued that this constituted an automatically unfair dismissal in terms of the Labour Relations Act, 1995.

Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), there has been much talk about what the new normal will be.

In addressing an appeal stemming from misconduct during the 2018 National Strike in the Plastics Industry in the case of National Union of Metalworkers of SA obo Motlang & Others v Polyoak...

A South African Labour Court has ruled that an employee who secured her position through fraudulent misrepresentations about her employment history must repay all remuneration received, along with costs incurred from consultants she secretly promoted. The judgment establishes significant precedent for employer remedies when recruitment fraud results in no value delivered, while confirming the Labour Court's jurisdiction over employment-related fraud claims.