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Can you discipline an employee for misbehaving when he is off-duty?
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Retrenchment myths
Thursday, 2 May 2013
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Up to date advise from our experts in the field.
Can you discipline an employee for misbehaving when he is off-duty?
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Scenario: Peter beats up a co-worker in a nightclub on Saturday night and then boasts nothing can be done to him (apart from a criminal assault case that gets opened, but he laughs it off, believing nothing will come of it).
You can think of thousands of examples where employees could bring your company name down. That’s why the courts say you can draw the line and balance your employees’ rights to privacy against the need to uphold the reputation of your business – during and after office hours, on the premises and off.
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Retrenchment myths
Thursday, 2 May 2013
In the light of increasing workforce cut-backs it is more important now than ever before that employers become aware of the plethora of myths related to retrenchments. That is, too many employers operate erroneously and dangerously according to the following myths:
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Textile firms challenge minister
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
A fresh court battle is looming between small clothing and textile firms in Newcastle and Minister of Labour Mildred Oliphant over the extension of minimum wage stipulations in the national bargaining council for the clothing and manufacturing industry agreement to non-members.
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Limiting Right to Strike: Section 65 of the Labour Relations Act
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
The South African Constitution recognises the right to strike as an important bargaining tool for trade unions.
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Facebook and Twitter: Be careful with your posts or tweets
Thursday, 28 March 2013
We recently placed an article on what an employer could do should an employee enter negative comments on Facebook. Consider the following:
“I wonder too what happened to the person who I counted as a best friend for 15 years, and how this behaviour is justified. Remember I see the broken hearted faces of your girls every day. Should we blame the alcohol, the drugs, the church, or are they more reasons to not have to take responsibility for the consequences of your own behaviour? But mostly I wonder whether, when you look in the mirror in your drunken testosterone haze, do you still see a man?”
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Plain language - a legal requirement in South Africa
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Since The Consumer Protection Act (CPA) came into full effect in April 2011, it’s now against the law to use difficult to understand language in financial and legal documents.
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Termination and employee performance
Thursday, 7 March 2013
One of your company managers is struggling with an under-performing worker, and so far, the manager has made all the right moves. The under-performance was addressed in the employee’s latest evaluation, coaching goals were set, and the manager has been following up on a regular basis. Every conversation has been documented, and HR has been kept in the loop at each step. But the manager’s efforts are not paying off. At this point, three warnings have been given, and it now looks like the employee will need to be dismissed.
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Compulsory retirement: When is it discrimination?
Monday, 4 March 2013
Discrimination based on age is a form of automatic unfair labour practice. When an employee reaches the retirement age and he is consequently dismissed or his employment is terminated, the employer would have to proof that it was an a agreed or normal retirement age. In practice the employer would have to proof two issues to the Court:
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Labour Relations Act Amendments to CCMA Procedures
Monday, 4 March 2013
Once enacted later this year, the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (Bill) will amend a number of provisions in the Labour Relations Act, No 66 of 1995 (LRA), that deal with the powers of and the procedures relating to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA).
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Political uncertainty holding companies back
Monday, 4 March 2013
NEARLY half of South African business leaders say they are delaying making important decisions about the future because of uncertainty about the country’s political direction, according to a survey from global consultancy Grant Thornton.
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