Employment Law News

What is absent or absenteeism? What does it mean and can I overlook it or should I deal with it? What will happen if I don't deal with it? What harm can it do if an employee is a few minutes late? Questions, questions and more questions - but the most dominant consideration is usually that "...

As we all by now know, the recent platinum mining strike in North West province, followed by the metal and engineering sector strike, severely impacted on the economy. Retrenchments are at the order of the day and the end is not yet in sight.But how much do strikes cost the economy annually? In 2012...

The recent case of Solidarity obo Wehncke v Surf4cars (Pty) Ltd (JA63/11) [2014] ZALAC 6 (20 February 2014) concerned an alleged automatically unfair dismissal where the alleged reason for the dismissal was to compel the employee to accept a demand in respect of a matter of mutual int...

Section 6 of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act makes provision for the Minister of Labour to publish a determination on the advice of the Commission that will exclude employees earning above a certain amount per year from sections of chapter 2 of the Act. Chapter 2 primarily deals with the regu...

The Labour Court recently revisited this issue in its judgment handed down on 6 June 2014, in Mmatli & 19 Others v Department of Infrastructure Development (Gauteng Province), J1238/14.The applicant employees were historically employed on a month to month basis by an entity within the Gauteng De...